I’m a senior in high school, and I play a big part in our theater department. There was a mass stabbing yesterday which left my young friend dead, and I’m struggling to even acknowledge that this is reality. Everyone is telling me not to shut down and I don’t know how. She was our stage manager and she was my partner in our show, which I think I might quit because I can’t handle doing it without her.
I’m a criminal justice major (in college despite being a high schooler) and I’m trying to become a police officer in my future. I know that this is something that I’ll have to get used to eventually, but right now I’m still a kid, and I can’t understand why someone would kill and harm so many people, including a sophomore in high school, with absolutely no motive. It hurts. There’s no clarity and absolutely no closure in a loss because of a pointless spree. I just don’t know what to do or how to go on after this. And I’m so frustrated with everybody else going on as if life is normal.