To all the sadistic, heartless people in the world causing terror and creating darkness for so many innocent people across the world…

I don’t want to know your name. You don’t deserve to be remembered for harming children in bombings, teenagers with your assault rifles, gay, straight, black, white, brown, yellow, pink or purple people with your words and weapons. I won’t remember you for cutting peoples lives too short and tearing families apart. Terror and hate won’t make you famous.

I turned on the news for 30 seconds this morning and heard 11 were killed in a freeway shooting and very quickly turned it back off. I was afraid my 3 year old could hear. I remembered why I don’t dare turn on the news during the day, for if I did I would expose my perfectly innocent babies to the world… and the world is a scary place. The only television that plays in our home is previously recorded Disney Jr., an occasional sports game or talent competition. I want to keep my children’s innocence intact. One day I will have to show them not all people are good, not all people are trustworthy, some are sick with hatred and will not have your best interests at heart. I’m dreading that day, the day I crush their image of the world around them. To them, it is made of ice cream and sparkly rainbows. In reality, too often crime and hate is happening; it doesn’t matter where you live, it is happening.

 

I hold my girls close and hope that by the time they are old enough to understand the world,  it won’t be filled with so much crime. I hope we start reporting on more of the positive in the world, on the people who deserve to be known and remembered for their good-hearted nature. I hope for a peace-filled world where the only issue with color is deciding which color to paint the bedroom wall or what color flowers to plant in the garden.

Please stop the violence and hate. Do it for all of our children growing up in this world. Let’s help give them a place they are proud to call home.

photos courtesy of Jaime Hearts Photography

Let love win.

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