are people for real?

so... i'm officially disgusted with humanity today... story: david, brad and i are on our way to jason and alenya's flat [they're in our class... for those of you who have no idea who i am referring to] and we meet up with kristen and camille [also in our class for this semester - they're with the fulbright college]. as we start down the lungotevere again, we see ahead of us three rather drunk men just sitting down and hanging out on the side of the sidewalk... taking a break, as it were. alright, here's where stuff gets really skin-crawlingly angering... so, these two maggots [i call them maggots, because they don't deserve the privilege to be referred to as human beings...] are walking in front of us... ironicly enough, on their way to temple [i think yesterday was yom kippur]... and one of these assholes kicks the living daylights out of one of the drunk men on the sidewalk... right in the head... - i mean, the sound was so loud, it was almost as if someone had just dropped a brick off of the roof of one of the seven-storey apartment buildings next to us... and these guys just took off running...

i feel like a sad excuse for a person today... because i was so shocked, all i could do was just stand there as these two hoodlums sprinted away and as the poor gentleman who was just assaulted was probably bleeding from the ear.

as we continued to walk, i couldn't help but wish that i could somehow catch up to those two - i can't even think of a word so foul as to describe them - and beat the living crap out of them with my bag full of wine bottles... just beat them to a pulp... i'm normally not a violent person, nor do i regularly wish ill-will on people, but i wanted something absolutely horrifying to happen to them. truly barbaric. i wanted someone to just pop out of nowhere and bestow the same shameless hatred upon them as they had upon that poor, harmless man. i truly makes me sick to think that i belong the same species as those two cretins. i am truly, deeply disgusted with humanity... i can't believe that people could actually bring themselves to be that hateful and cruel. i'm sorry, but i am still in total shock over the events that took place last night. ... ... ...

i have no fun facts for you today, because i think that if i added one, it might make light of a very serious post. i do apologize for the somber mood of my post today, but i just had to write this stuff down. it just seems so unreal... so completely an utterly impossible for people in this day and age to be so barbaric, so completely devoid of any compassion for their fellow man... although this kind of shit [pardon my language but i can think of no other appropriate term…] really shouldn't surprise me, considering current world events... i just can't believe that this happened right in front of my face... and the worst part about it is that i took no action against the assailants... i did nothing but make sure that the assaulted man was alright. ...