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Life Must Be Understood Backward
By Cristina Cordova
Created 12/07/2007 - 10:18pm

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Police have released a suicide note written by the 19-year-old Omaha mall gun shooter:

"I've just snapped - I can't take this meaningless existence anymore. I've been a constant disappointment and that trend would have only continued."

I'm always suprised by people who have the foresight to put an explanation in writing even after they've snapped...

Sure, we have no fields left to plow. We're no longer building anything (beyond a facebook page or a new website). We're no longer working for anything tangible (hence we've stopped working at all). We're... content? Content in this disaster.

Most of us could have written this note, probably, which is the frightening part.

But who ever said existence has to have meaning?

 

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