Like everyone else I'm just wishing we could turn back time and start yesterday all over again with a different outcome.

The massacre fills my mind and it's hard to get beyond it. There is just something so horrendous and frightening about the sudden and inexplicable lost lives of so many with so much to offer this world. I cannot believe we are here once again mourning the senseless loss of life in a place we want our children to feel safe.

It's overwhelming to think of all the families that have been torn apart. The students that lost friends and classmates and professors. University is supposed to be a time of spreading your wings, doing crazy things, learning yes, but more than that a time for making some of your strongest friendships ever and just having some stupid harmless fun along the way. Damn that Cho Seung-Hui for taking all that away.

Although I feel a sense of anger and bewilderment towards the shooter I do feel immense sorrow for his family. They have lost a son in what has to be the worst way imaginable. I don't know how you recover from that. You would have nothing good to hang onto. Every memory would be overshadowed by his last action.

I hope those left behind to cope with this tragedy will be able to find comfort and solace in their friends and family. I hope they will be able to remember all the wonderful times they had with their loved ones and realize their life was more important than their death. It's too easy to let grief and anger to take root and obliterate the memories. They have a tough, tough road ahead and when all of us have moved on and they find themselves alone with their thoughts I hope they have someone they can cling to and talk to and find that inner strength needed to not only survive but to once again experience the beauty and joy that this world has to offer.