Heart is aching!

Hi everyone, today is a very sad day for me, I have learned you do not have to know someone personally for your heart to ache, as mine is.  In the last 3 days there have been 3 deaths in my town and neighboring towns, senseless deaths of two young people and a family monarch. Jose (17 years old) a young man from my town was stab coming from a party, my son knew him and said he was a funny kid, always with a smile, there were some gang members outside as he was leaving a party they had a few words and he was stabbed, he died from his wounds, his future was so brite, up and coming future football star for Rahway High School, and who knows what else life would have offered him! In Linden, Amber was walking home with a friend from Dunkin Doughnuts and was approached by a man who tried to rob her, she was shot and died ( 18 yrs old) Captain of her cheer leading squad and recent HS graduate, and her dreams of being a future police officer gone. As a parent I cannot even imagine what the families are going threw, my heart breaks for them all. In another town of Clark a 73 year old women was found on her couch with her throat slashed, her son could not get a hold of her when he went to the home she was still in her nightgown on the couch with her throat slashed. I have to wonder what is this world coming to.  You can not go to parties or walk the streets and your not even safe in your own home! I have lived in Rahway for 20 years I was raised in Linden and I have family in Clark, all nice towns! As a parent I have watch and protected my child to the best of my ability, as I am sure so have others.  You think okay they will be okay, but there not!  My son was extremely upset to here that Jose was killed. I tell him even at his age which is 19yrs old that is why I call to make sure he is okay!  You never know, you just never know, that they could walk out that door and it could be the last time! It sound horrible doesn't it I know but its that true.  There are no plastic bubbles you could hide yourself in, you are in the hands of the world! Enjoy each other every day to the fullest, be happy and not afraid, we are all handed a deck of cards and we have to believe even with what happen to these fine people, that there is good in this world or we will not survive. Rest in peace to you all,  no one could ever hurt you again!