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The Flood / Re: Murder/Suicide in Tisdale, Sk
« on: May 05, 2015, 02:14:16 PM »Nope, lived in small towns my entire life.As a small group of interconnected communities, this hits hard.I wouldn't give a fuck if my neighbour blew his brains out in the street.
If somebody who lived 40 minutes away pulled a triple homicide, followed by suicide, I probably wouldn't even hear about it. Why? Because we're not pansies. I live in a small town. Would any of these fuckers dying impact my life? Not a chance.
Also, lol, now the red headed girl can become bat-girl.
Then you're the sterotypical city/modern age dweller who's been desensitized to things. My entire province operates on a different level. While communities are scattered all across it, and our cities harbor most of our number, word travels quickly.
There's a level of interconnectedness to generally all the communities and even the cities. We aren't violent people. Something like this is generally unheard of in even in the cities. For a small town, this is big. And it's bad.
People know each other up here. Travel all the way out to Saskatoon, and you can bump into people from the same town as yours. Mention a family name and chances are, people will know who you're talking about.
My province, has one foot in the past, with interconnected and caring communities, and one foot in the modern age.
I care because these are people that live close to home. These were kids you could meet every day when they get off the bus. This was a person you could bump into on the streets and have idle talk with as two passerby.
When you live in relative isolation, when you have such a distance to cover between places, people mean more to you when you see them. People leave more of an impact on you.
Someone I've never met is a person I've never met, whether they live in china or the next block from my house.
I won't woe just because It's possible I could've run into them at the store eventually.
As for being desensitised, haha, no.
If anything, your people have become more sensitive with time.
During ancient times, everyone was even less sensitive than I am.
