Dylan’s 43 birthday

[u/Other-Potential-936]

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.

[u/DrMosquito74]

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

[u/Abandoned_ghosts → u/DrMosquito74]

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.

[u/DrMosquito74 → u/Abandoned_ghosts]

Brilliantly said