Police here. I pretty much only see the bad side of the world. It gives you a very pessimistic view.

I the past 3 months I worked an active shooter with one dead and one other shot in the head and permanently disabled. Then I worked (one of our police recruits starting the academy) a guy who’s wife who shot herself in the head , and then he shot himself in the head while I was in his driveway. Both dead. That’s this year.

I’ve been a police officer for 21 years in a busy area. I’ve worked ;

• A man who shot his 11 and 14 year old kids in the head In front of their mother. Then he killers himself.

• A man who melted entirely after he sat for 3 weeks when he died while drawing a hot bath. He was a pool of goop with a lump where his bones were when we found him.

• A dead baby in a plastic shopping bag in a gold course pond.

• a 64 year old woman who was doused in gasoline by her boyfriend and set on fire. She died a week later.

• A billion other Suicides and Homicides and natural deaths that I haven’t mentioned. Not to mention some of the shooting stabbings, rapes , child molestations and whatever else you could imagine.

I don’t think people realize the kind of trauma first responders have to deal with on a weekly basis.

Whenever a bad thing happens I the world, First responders, military and hospital workers have to deal with it. There are wayyyy more bad things than some people think.