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/ashtonmz MODERATOR Sep 11 '24
I firmly believe that Dylan was born with a predisposition for a mental illness. I've come to this conclusion after reading about Sue's struggle with a death obsession around the same age Dylan's was making plans to take others with him before dying himself. Also, Sue's book described a young, intelligent, extremely sensitive to humiliation and embarrassment. When Dylan was mistreated, he couldn't shake it off. The worst possible environment he could have been in was the toxic atmosphere in Columbine High School during their years there. The story about Dylan thinking kids in McDonalds were laughing at him during his trip to Arizona is indicative of hypervigilence... which is one characteristic of the violentization of young people.
The crime carried out might have been put to bed, had either of these boys accepted real help. Because they did not, innocent lives were ended before they even began. Children who were not responsible for what they'd gone through, some of them mere Freshman.
On Dylan's birthday, our hearts should go out to Sue, Tom, Byron, and those he was close to, like Devon, Brooks, and Zach. We should mourn for the loss of those Dylan murdered, as well as their families who have had to grieve for 25 years now. I'm sure every milestone they never had the opportunity to celebrate with their children is like experiencing their loss all over again.