when reality and fiction collide...

Body of Missing Florida Girl Is Found

When Criminal Minds and Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit, in particular comes to life, it is both shocking and disconcerting. I don't want to go at lengths, trying to delve into the killer's psyche, but needless to say, the lack of remorse scares me. How can someone simply kill a child, and dump her body in a landfill? (Assuming the killer dumped it there, and not elsewhere) Do they not feel any sympathy? Or a second's hesitation when terminating an innocent life?

Reading news like these disturb me. Quite a bit and now I keep having thoughts about what if this happens to me? Or happens to someone I know; what would it be like to lose a relative to murder? It's a macabre thing to ask, I understand, but sometimes I wonder. Sometimes I am very much aware how lucky I am, being where I am situated. The crime rate (or at least heinous crimes and child murder) here is practically non-existent and at 3 a.m. in the morning I can walk through an empty park without fearing for my life.

I am thankful for it. As much as I am sorry for the girl's family. Burying your young can never be an easy task. Hell, saying goodbye to a loved one is hard as hell.