Texts from my son during the Arapahoe shooting

I think there's a whole literary niche that has yet to catch on or be truly explored that just tells the story from texts and other electronic communications - like the modern version of a story told with just letters.

> "I love you so much"

Tears were (almost) shed. As someone who grew up in an Asian family, those words are uttered nowhere near enough (never).

I do hope that in the midst of our busy lives, we don't forget to tell loved ones that we love them. Thanks for sharing.

No one else finds these texts disturbing and probably contributing to the damage these (rare) events do?

What does texting your child continuous achieve other than pushing them into a point of emotional panic, both unable to deal with any current problem (unlikely).

But also damaging them after (likely)

This was one person killing another. A rare event that we as society have to deal with maturely, it happens, it almost never affects us. Deal with it.

I had a similar experience during a suicide at my high school in 2007. This wasn't nearly as tragic as Araphaoe: one poor, depressed kid who committed suicide during lunch but fortunately didn't try to take anyone with him. The most surreal bit for us was that the despite being on lockdown for four hours, the school told us nothing. We got all our information from the outside through our phones.

The typos in the texts communicate so much. The rawness and stress of the situation. Wow, this was surprisingly touching.

Your son survived but Hacker News is dead.