Letters to the Editor
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Cho? No.
LW, you are not Cho; you could never be Cho. The many millions of us throughout the world who walk around with various full-blown disorders or various permutations of obsession, hostility and instability also could never be Cho. He's made international headlines precisely because he is one in a billion.
If you are feeling particularly sensitive to others' reactions around this time, it is probably only because Cho is currently taking up so much mental bandwidth in all of us. For better or worse, give it two weeks and this terrible incident will have receded to the back of the collective conscious.
Call me a crazy dreamer, but I sense that all the delving into Cho's miserable mental life could actually culminate in something very positive: a sea change of compassion for those struggling to just get through a day in this life.