So recently I wrote a post with the same title as this and @JimLamb gave the idea to create it as a challenge. So it goes like this - "When you don't cry now on the things you would've cried for in the past, have you become more strong or more damaged?" Anything is welcomed. Please tag me in the comments!!

an epidemic

It’s happened again, and this time I read the text without emotion. Just another overdose to add to my list of high school friends that once were. This one should trouble me, it’s the sister of a friend that’s already stiff and cold from the same pointless tragedy. I know their mother, she’s a wonderful person, and yet I don’t even feel anything for her loss. I should pay my respects to her, but how can I show up bleak of feeling? Does a monster that no longer feels offer anything to a grieving person? Will it even matter if I don’t show up? Does it even matter that they are gone? Where is my empathy? Why do I crave tears when I know very well how much they sting? Why have so many walked this road creating non-feeling shells of a person, void to the aftermath of death?