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There’s something about your brain running about a million thoughts per minute that really makes one feel awfully sick to their stomach.

Things that you only hear in those news do not happen to people that are close to you.

I’m pretty sure that the majority of everyone out there have heard about all the shootings that have been going on it seems like forever now. In my area alone there has been two in the past month. The mall shooting really put everyone on alert where ever they went. I know I can’t go into the grocery store without felling paranoid. But it’s when it happens close to people that you truly care about that it really makes me fear that something like this might happen again. I’m really talking about the Northern Illinois University shootings that happened earlier today.

All day I’ve been at classes at my local college and running errands for my parents so I wasn’t anywhere near a television and the radio is completely useless when it comes to News. Correction: listening to top 20 stations are useless when it comes to hearing news. I was out at the grocery store when I got a call from a number who I couldn’t recognize right away. It was my old supervisor and friends sister who called me. When she told me what was going on, and that everyone that we both knew were okay I felt relived. But then I remembered they were the only ones that go to that school.

It seemed like the majority of my High School graduating class were going to attend NIU. That means I still haven’t gotten in touch with most of them. Yes, Facebook has been some source of comfort, but there still haven’t been any answers to most of the pleas online. Everyone can only hope their loved ones weren’t among the shot.

My sympathy really does go out to the families and friends of the people who were involved in this senseless act.