Upset over a stranger's tradgedy

[Marnieboo82]

A person on my Facebook posted on Sunday morning their cousin had been beaten up outside a pub the night before. Left for dead. They updated their page the last few days. The guy who did it has been arrested and has done this before. The guy in hospital is in a bad way and on life support. Yesterday they shared a status to say the drs can do no more. They were doing a final test today to confirm before switching off his machine.

I don't know this man. I just can't switch off from it. He was in his 30s and a dad. Today his life has ended due to a random thug who has hurt people before. I'm not sure why I'm writing this on here. It's just so sad to see the state of the world at times. How can someone live with themselves for this. In heartbroken for that guy and how his life was stolen so suddenly.

All that sort of stuff makes me sad
And it's hard not to feel that this hugely violent behaviour is becoming more common. Although it probably isn't.

I know. To think it happened half a mile from my door. How he must of felt in those last moments. Just makes me shudder. Older people say it used to be a fair fight. One punch and done etc. Now you hear all too often of people beating eachother to a pulp. It's just made me feel cold. What a sad end to a life with so much potiential.

The world is a horrible place.

Absolutely. So senseless

Sometimes awful things happen in the world and it can make us stop and think and even force us to come to terms with our own mortality, however sharing recognisable and upsetting information about someone else's tragic family situation probably isn't appropriate.

It's called empathy. You feel for someone else's loss, and for the one who has passed. If you lose the capacity to relate to someone else's tragedy (or good fortune) that's when you need to worry.

It is heartbreaking. I can only imagine the pain this has caused. Awful.