Wes’s Life

A lot of people have called me, sent me e-mails, left com­ments on my blog and oth­er­wise made sure that I was still living and breath­ing. To all of those people, thank you. It’s good to know that there are people out there that actu­ally think about you.

We began our first day of school here at Vir­ginia Tech very ten­ta­tively. Some people were still afraid, some people needed a shoul­der to cry on. Yet we still went about campus, weav­ing between the build­ings and uneasily look­ing at Norris every time we stepped foot near it. I wish I could say class went on as normal, that we went to class just like we would every other Monday morn­ing. How­ever, class was dif­fer­ent and most cer­tainly not nearly as well attended.

Pro­fes­sors tired of the media told us to keep an eye out for poten­tial reporters and that they no longer had any respect for the media. I have to over­whelm­ingly agree; CNN is the worst of the lot, with their sen­sa­tion­al­ism and over zeal­ous report­ing they have made coping with this much harder on people that don’t need it to be any harder.

This is how we will pre­vail, we will sit with our friends and we will laugh, we will tell sto­ries, we will smile and we will live.

Lunch was the most inter­est­ing part of the day. I strolled into Owens like I nor­mally do every Monday and went over to the normal spot and imme­di­ately noticed that even with the poor atten­dance in class, there was an abun­dance of people – and more impor­tantly good spir­its – here. This is how we will pre­vail, we will sit with our friends and we will laugh, we will tell sto­ries, we will smile and we will live. We will move for­ward and we will remem­ber these people who died need­lessly – and for some, self­lessly.

Let this tragedy be a reminder to us all, life is too short to waste time. Enjoy life as best you can, you are only here once and even then we don’t know for how long.