A bloody history lesson in Belgrade. A tragedy that silenced the region and left no room for indifference. Tragically lost lives and darkness, after the massacre in an elementary school.
The child perpetrator, a 14-year-old, an excellent student in 7th grade, according to information reported by Serbian media, was ridiculed and a victim of bullying, and he committed the heinous act after meticulous planning a month in advance.
The damage has already been done, the compass has been lost. There is no excuse, but the problem is concrete.
The problem is multi-layered, deep, and the responsibility is ours, not someone else's.
Parents or guardians, immediate and extended family, educational institutions, institutions, the system, the media... All stakeholders in society have forgotten their children or, if it is more appropriate: they ignore them, forgetting the fact that they are the future, and the future is created now and from an early age.
We have left children to themselves and to the generally naive toys of the new age. We do not talk, we do not answer their questions in a substantive way, we increasingly reduce the time for them at the expense of "adult problems", we have consciously allowed them to seek "role models" in superficial characters, and all this has dragged on for decades that tectonically shift values and disfigure them, empty them spiritually, and suck the childhood out of children and the humanity of adults.
The form has restrained the essence.
And now, for a moment, this tragedy will open up the questions that should be "hanging" over our heads every day, as a prevention, not as a consequence.
How was your school? Did someone's action, word, gesture hurt you? Did you hurt or offend anyone? Why, if something like that happened? How are you? Do you want to talk? How are your friends? Do you help each other regardless of all your differences? Differences should bring you together, not separate you. You are the most important thing to me, work can wait. Come and hug you. Good night. Tomorrow is a new, better day. Everything will be okay, no matter what!
Words and actions are both poison and medicine!
Children need our attention, space, time and love!
Be careful with children/Seriously and very careful with children. They feel more than you can imagine. They may not always know how to express emotion, but deep down inside they have it – both good and bad. Emotions, feelings can bring out the best and the worst in them.
Return to the children with all your presence. Time has long since passed away from our side!
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