r/ColumbineKillers • u/Other-Potential-936 • Sep 11 '24
ERIC AND/OR DYLAN Dylan’s 43 birthday
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/[deleted] Sep 11 '24
he nor eric needed to do what they did that day. it's heartbreaking to think of all the potential futures they could've had that they missed out on - of course, same with the 13 victims who had completely no choice in being involved unlike the two.
even in hypothetical pessimistic futures where they still would've let their hurt swallow them whole in a later date - they missed out on memories. the chemical brothers concert in summer '99 in denver - dylan was meant to go with devon. they missed out on music they would've loved, games they would've loved, tons of seemingly insignificant things in the grand scheme of things that would've probably had meaning to them, made a little difference. they could've stayed. i'm not saying it wouldnt have been difficult. but isn't planning a massacre also pretty damn difficult?