I'm writing this chapter/part/issue because I'm too cowardly to confront my friends about this.978Please respect copyright.PENANAAASFEm5hJA
So there's apparently this hip thing called R** *** *****let (I'd rather not tell you what it is, but you know what it is if you've heard of it). Basically, it show gruesome videos as a 'challenge' to see how much you can stomach and is a sort of courage test or something the other. I, though, have quite the opinion here.978Please respect copyright.PENANAcF238CXbmD
To list off the things that took place in the several videos I decided to watch due to peer pressure, there was an infant run over by a train, a man crushed between a train platform and a moving train, animals skinned alive, a man losing his face due to a cliff diving incident, a woman being stabbed in broad daylight in public, among others.978Please respect copyright.PENANAfwn8dGAlRz
Sure, I'm a bit scarred, but not as much as I wish I were. Such is the human nature, we forget things easily but we can also remember things easily. Strange how our minds work.978Please respect copyright.PENANAKtLwZmlDKk
So, the animals being skinned alive didn't faze me too much. Hunting happens, animals are killed, some nearly tortured to death, and they're animals. I wouldn't be worried too much about animals, but I felt really sad for them. I mean, a quick death with a bullet to the head is okay for me, but skinning the things alive, not even mercy killing, is just plain cruel, you know?978Please respect copyright.PENANAN7hv42VMPQ
Woman being stabbed repeatedly. Nobody helped her until one person got the stabber off of her. She was still alive by the end of the video, and during it she was screaming the whole time, though you couldn't really tell because of the low video quality. I think that the asshat who decided to record it instead of helping her especially since everyone outnumbered the assailant 8:1 is indeed an asshat. Fucking asshat.978Please respect copyright.PENANAqq2h8iaSuu
Man losing his face. I didn't look through the entire thing, but his face was literally cut off of his head. He was still alive. He was bleeding. His face was off, hanging on the side. Fuck. Shit. No. The people tried to help him out, but I think he shouldn't have been cliff diving in the first place. Dangerous activity that people find exhilarating, unique, etc. and while they're right about that, it's still a dangerous thing to do.978Please respect copyright.PENANAtR1ruEVELH
Man being crushed between a moving train and a platform. Blood, gore, not safe to watch. Didn't watch much of it. If I learned one day that my father or brother or son or cousin or friend died like that, I'd not enjoy that. A mangled body. Oh God.978Please respect copyright.PENANAp4U5b8ybTc
Infant crushed by a train. Don't see why somebody would put that on the Internet, but people are fucked up. Holy shit. And my friends thought we should continue after that? A baby just died! They shrugged it off, at least on the outside, and internally I was bawling for the mother, father, siblings, etc., because they just lost a newborn human baby that could've made many memories in that family. Continue after realizing that a human was unable to live even three or some years? No thank you!978Please respect copyright.PENANAp0wqYb56SQ
Just think a little about this. People thought they should make a challenge to watch horrible, gory misfortunes of others, and people actually take the challenge. The thing is, most people forget the horrors they see, like a man getting in a car crash and dying, people see the scene, and God damn the people who see the scene will just forget. Some family will just forget their hardships. Sure, move along, but forget all together? Just forget a man you spent so much time with? Forget a man who could've been a good man? If he was a bad man, it wouldn't be such a horrible experience, but for God's sake a man died. A human being. I mean... ah, I'm gonna go way off subject at this pace...978Please respect copyright.PENANA3PRTfGLVHz
Anyways, gruesome things were gruesome. If you see someone die, just pray for them. If you see people in hardships, pray for them. Even if you believe in nothing, just hope the people good luck and fortune. Because in death, everything is taken from you, save your soul (if you believe in such, id est), of course, but your whole life is taken. No more movies, friends, pets, relationships, arguments, cheesy jokes, funny cat gifs... all of that is taken away in death. Death is horrible, even worse than rape, et cetera, because everything is taken away from you. There may be Heaven waiting, but all those times on Earth have better been spent well or else you just lost your life for nothing.978Please respect copyright.PENANA50DXlElD6c
Ugh, God dangit, just... okay, so there should just be one rule to follow when living life: don't be an asshat. Don't do bad things, and you should live well with a good conscious. Be nice, even though bad things may happen to good people, but "the evil that men do live after them; The good is oft interred with their bones". ... I don't even understand Shakespeare :/978Please respect copyright.PENANAFYYBYKHqq2
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Such a sensitive subject I chose, poor words I used... eh, you get the message, right? Message is: I'm stressed, I'm worried, I'm scared, and I need to vent it out through writing.978Please respect copyright.PENANA14mPB1ph4Z
Thank you for reading, and I'm so sorry about all the swearing I did in this piece.978Please respect copyright.PENANA0lgSWGo88z