I just witnessed a young man and woman engage in a loud and profane shouting match as he walked away from her, shouting angrily as he left. This was around midnight near the local high school where I live. I wasn't sitting next to my window waiting for some excitement, so they must have been pretty loud. After it became clear to her that her attempts to lure him back ("if you fucking care anything about ... [unintelligible] ... you'll fucking come back here!!!!") would be unsuccessful she ran back to her car and sped away after him, driving dangerously fast.
As I find myself more and more bothered reading about whatever latest outrages are happening somewhere in this world, I suppose it would do some slight good for my own state of mind to keep in mind that human beings are fundamentally irrational. What little reason we do exhibit almost always comes from extensive experience or arduous training, neither of which come easily or often to most people. In their absence, we're driven by instinct, by emotion. And emotions are fucking insane.
I say this might help me because in some cases it would soften anger into sympathy, outrage into lament. You can't be mad at a crazy person can you? They're not responsible for what they do, right? Those kids pissed me off until I realized they don't realize what the hell they're doing. Now I just feel sorry for them, and anyone else in their path.
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