Elliot Rodger

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   I read this article today. It was..... disturbing. But yet here is another tragedy caused by society and the judgment fixed on stereotyping.

   Elliot Rodger is a suspect for killing 7 people by stabbing and shooting. He first stabbed three men in his apartment building and then proceeded to drive around the streets and shot almost everyone he saw. He did that but not after leaving his last message to humanity through this video.

   According to what I've read, Rodger had been bullied all his life and was thrown off a balcony at a party once. On some level, I can relate to him because I knew how that felt. I knew how it felt to be rejected by society and how it feels to be alone. I knew how it felt that you are not good enough to fit in. It messes with your head. You are in this place where you want to hurt yourself or you want to make a statement. And trust me, that is not a place you want to be in. I've lost interest in life and everything around me. I just don't see the purpose of everything and everyone but I realized that "How long will I be like this?".

   It's disgusting how the norms of society did this. Just because a person wasn't good enough or "too cool" then it doesn't mean that you gotta look at them like they have a contagious disease or something. Think of it. This is not gonna be the last time if the stereotype of the society is still the same. Elliot Rodger himself might be a victim just as all of us are. We are victims of the stereotyping judgmental society and the unseen caste system that has been there all along.

But of course that's an everyday thing. That's permanent. Whether we like it or not, that's the world that we're living in now and that's on us on how we take it or face it and apparently, Elliot Rodger chose the wrong way to do so.