Battered Wife Syndrome

Ever since we were born, we were brought with a wish of living heathily and happily and no more else. That's pretty right and common to hear a mother-to-be say or a mom in labor cry out, "Just live its own life and nothing's important at all." But the truth is that when a life starts, the wish never ends.

After a series of diapers changing and a hundreds of baby nursing at nights, parents will start looking forward to watching their kid climbing up and shining out. They give their endless love unconditionally, even though it seems not unconditional. It is unconditional only when their kids understand they shouldn't take it for granted. Somehow, most of the time, they don't.

Everyone is born to have the look which nobody else has. Each face is unique, and each smile is priceless. We are supposed to appreciate the difference but, unfortunately, we live in a world that difference is usually not respected.

It is media that should be charged with the first degree murder of killing the difference between each one. Magazines tell us how a girl should show their tits to get close to the definition of being hot. News broadcast how a cute guy should work out and show off their muscles at the beach which causes a thunder of scream by girls. Heroes are not born, they are made. And so do monsters.

Even though, from the first day of school to the graduation, appearance has always been said to be ignored and beside the point of success, still, you can always find out that is totally wrong. The cruelest truth is that appearance matters a lot more than your imagination.

High school is like an American Top Model competition. Nerds get picked on by jocks due to their lack of puberty and social skills. Geeks get bullied by popular kids because of their skinny arms and weakeness. They don't look cool, and then they will be labeled as "mommy's pet." They don't look strong and they will be shoved to the locker rooms with punches. They don't choose to attack other kids so that they are treated as those who are attacked. Instead of other little reasons, appearance and tardiness of puberty lead them to the path of mistreatment in a place where danger is never predicted: school.

At dinner, parents are always trying to care about how the school is going. They ask, they listen. Instead of reviewing all the bloody plots, bullied kids usually tend to respond like nothing happened. They don't want to talk about it, since saying it out always backfires in the end and how come they would like to run through it again in details and embarrassment? They asnwer, they lie.

Lie needs another lie to cover. More lies, more pressure. When all those mixed feelings come together and push an immature kid to wander. Nothing good is going to happen. Instead, here comes the revenge.

Then, shooting on campus pops up on the news.