Surreal but Nice

A week ago, one of the headlines in our homepage was about a father who killed his kids and then took his own life. What's more despicable is the fact that the reason why he killed his kids was because he found out that his wife is having an affair. Of course, anyone who had been cheated by someone they love would be furious. But killing doesn't change anything. Whether he was mad or he was depressed. That's no excuse to kill your kids.. to kill.

After reading that, I wanted to know if there are more stories similar to this. And yes there are.

I was watching videos in Youtube, when a video caught my attention. A mother drowned all of her kids to death. Six of them. And laid them in their own bed and covered them with blankets. Reports said that the mother was diagnosed with psychological instability. Which means they couldn't put her to jail, since she was very sick. She told her husband that she killed their kids because she doesn't want to see them hurt because there are so many bad things happening in this world. And she was sobbing but that couldn't change the fact that she took their own life. It was also reported that, the oldest, fought for his life, while her mother strangled him and drowned him in their bathtub. (Seriously, writing this, is giving me the chills and making me teary-eyed.) 

Sometimes you think you are safe inside your own house, but reading this makes you think twice. You would start to question, why do these things happen? Why do these people do such acts? What were they thinking? How could they do these to innocent little minds? And all the questions starts to pour down. Then you feel spaced out. Empty. To no avail, no questions answered.

After a month, I forgot all about this. I forgot what I read and seen. But yesterday, it all came back to me when I read another news about a mother who abducted, raped and killed an 8 year old girl. The convicted murderer was not the biological mother of the girl. She was actually a sunday school teacher and a mother of a 5-year old girl who lives a couple of doorsteps away from the kid. Not only did she killed the girl, it was reported that the girl was mollested first and then killed. And she shoved her body into a suitcase and threw it to the drainage system. 

And then again.. I felt unsafe.