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  • What I Learned About Fear – Reflections on Colorado Theater Shooting

    Posted on 08.12.12 | 6 Comments


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    Editor’s Note: The news of the shooting that took place at a Denver Colorado movie theater shook the world. Our TSN contributor Kayla Albert happens to live a few minutes from the theater (and ironically had tickets to the midnight showing of the movie that night and ended up not going). This article was written three weeks ago on her reflections to the traumatic event. Don’t miss this article.

    By Kayla Albert

    “Love is what we were born with.
    Fear is what we learned here.”
    ~Marianne Williamson

    My eyes followed him as he paced back and forth from window to door and back again. He appeared agitated and on edge, and his demeanor immediately made me uneasy. I felt the pit in my stomach expand each time he passed by my table.

    A few short minutes later, someone else appeared and the two sat and chatted at a nearby table. The scene I was witnessing was simply a man keeping an eye out for his late friend. Yet it sparked in me something I wasn’t used to feeling: fear.

    Fear is generally not something that I grapple with – I’ve always felt that the world is filled with kind, loving people and I don’t need to be on alert every time I’m in a public place.

    Then last Friday morning I awoke to the horrific scene that was unfolding at a Colorado movie theater a few short miles from my home. (read more…)

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