Too Much to Handle

I awoke yesterday morning to read Facebook posts about some sort of tragedy in Aurora, Colorado. Not having a TV nearby this week, I started searching the internet and saw what everyone was talking about.

I have yet to be able to make it through the news stories that I keep trying to read. It was just too much to take in early this morning. I got the facts that were available at that point from the story and moved on with my day, thinking about it from time-to-time. At lunch, I sat down again to pull up a news story. This time, the story, of course, had more details. I made it through about half the story. But I had an overwhelming sadness that prevented me from going any further.

I hate that. I really want to know more about what happened and why experts might think that it happened. And I want to try to process the story and internalize it a little bit.

But I just can't. It's just too much to handle. Guess that's how it is sometimes.