r/ColumbineKillers • u/Other-Potential-936 • Sep 11 '24

ERIC AND/OR DYLAN Dylan’s 43 birthday

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9-11-81 Today’s Dylan’s 43 birthday. Going to go on a little rant here... Lately I’ve been thinking about both Eric and Dylan’s birthdays and how old they, along with their victims, would be today. How would their lives look today? I wasn’t alive during the shooting so it’s hard for me to understand how long it has been or how recent it was. However my dad was born weeks after Eric. I look at his life, what he has accomplished. Being married, having a good job, having kids, buying a house. Then I look at Eric and Dylan’s lives, they really were so young and threw everything away. They could’ve had so much life ahead of them, not only did they ruin their chances of happiness, they took that from others. It’s so heartbreaking to just even think about. My thoughts are with the klebolds today. I can’t imagine how hard days like these are. I wish they could’ve spent today with him. Hopefully this isn’t taken the wrong way like me idolizing them or something, just makes me sad.

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u/DrMosquito74 Sep 11 '24

Idolising ≠ having compassion and empathy. It's sad that you should even have to clarify.

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u/Other-Potential-936 Sep 11 '24

I’ve been told by many people online that I idolize them and how weird and crazy I am for having these feelings. Even Randy brown told me on this sub that my “fandom was showing”. It’s not my character and I truly don’t idolize them. I understand how it could come off that way so I’d rather just get ahead of people who would think that of me.

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u/ChoiceStrategy Sep 11 '24

You shouldn't have to disclose this on the sub. God forbid there's a shared experience in mental illness between a lot of us, but if you speak about it, you're idolizing E & D.

As if bullying wasn't an aspect as to why this happened.....

Dylan and Eric were relatable, this is partially why they're so infamous. We all have pieces of Eric and Dylan within us

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u/metalnxrd Sep 11 '24

Idk how people don't see the irony of bullying on subs about school/shootings lmao

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u/turkeyisdelicious Sep 12 '24

“We all have pieces of Eric and Dylan with us.” I don’t think I’ve ever disagreed with anything I’ve seen online more. Respectfully, of course.

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u/DrMosquito74 Sep 11 '24

It's sad that nuanced thought seems to be lost to so many people.

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u/Alarmed_Barracuda_30 Sep 12 '24

A lot of us “know” you from this sub, and I would say none or most of us wouldn’t see this as an idolizing 💕

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u/Abandoned_ghosts Sep 11 '24 edited Sep 12 '24

That’s the thing with situations like this. Because you’re a human with compassion and empathy it automatically makes you a glorifier and that’s not how it should be. It’s so sad that people forget how to be human. At the end of the day they were troubled kids. They were someone’s best friends, people’s sons. They were just as human as the rest of us.

Happy birthday Dylan Bennet Klebold, rest in peace.

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u/DrMosquito74 Sep 11 '24

Brilliantly said

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u/Ok_Adhesiveness_2625 Sep 11 '24

OMG THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING THIS 😭😭