Don’t ignore this!
It’s hard for me to think of anything else than the massacre in Norway. I have so many questions. I can’t understand. It makes no sense.
I try to put it all aside for a little while. It’s too much. I need a break.
But I can’t. My thoughts always come back to the images from the news. The shock in my gut. And the stories from those who survived.
One tells the story of how she survived by hiding under the lifeless bodies of her friends, playing dead. He had shot them all.
Another one hid in a toilet with four others. He tells us how they heard someone enter the premises saying he was the police and that it was safe to come out. Someone answered, came out of hiding. Shots were fired. Then silence.
One girl had broken her ankle and her friends had to make the decision whether to stay with her and or leave her and try to save themselves.
People tried to escape the island by swimming. He shot at them. Some didn’t make it to shore.
These are the thoughts that haunt us as a nation. This is why I cannot be quiet about it. This cannot be ignored or forgotten.
