Colorado, nothing will change your beauty.

Recently with everything that has happened in my beautiful state of Colorado there have been a lot of people wondering and asking, including my friends and I, just what is going on anymore. I know someone who is religious, and I mean not the type of person who sits there and preaches or stuffs religion down your throat, but someone who truly believes and yet lets others believe how they want to. I admire that greatly. Well we were talking about all the fires and how some who know the bible could speculate that the fires in Colorado were God's way of cleansing. First theirs floods, then fire....
To a person who is a believer but not a reader of the bible that thought can be sobering and intense to digest. It makes you sit and wonder, can that be for real? Is all that hoopla about 2012 really legitimate and this is only the beginning, all joking aside, is it? Then something more horrible and devastating happens. Homes and objects can be rebuilt or bought. Fires can destroy "things" but as long as the people of the homes were safe then nothing too horrible was lost. But then July 20th happened and that changed the way people saw life all over again.
You can't replace people. EVER. You can't buy or build them, and nothing can make that pain of losing someone so dear fade. Time doesn't heal wounds, you just get used to the wound being there. Missing them will be easier at some point, but you'll never stop missing them. I love Colorado for the simple fact that we are so much an entire community. I can't even begin to tell you how many commercials or websites have been put up wanting to help out victims of both the wild fires and the theater shooting. We as Coloradans always come together when the time is needed. And we won't ever let James Holmes or anyone like him take that away from us. We learn from what happens and make changes for the better. If you can't learn from your history then you are doomed to repeat it. I have yet to go to a state that I have found to have nicer people than Colorado, granted I haven't been to many state, or at least haven't stayed in many for long and it could be said that I'm a biased native and my opinion doesn't really count. But I know that no matter what has happened in Colorado or what will happen in the future, all Coloradans will pull together in times of need and come to help one another. Life, family and friends are too precious to not know, understand and realize that important fact.
Colorado holds its own majestic beauty, one that people country wide can appreciate. But the beauty that I am most proud of claiming is the beauty of community and of having perfect strangers sending their love to one another and showing their support despite possibly having no connection to either incidences besides them taking place in our Colorado.
So Coloradans, stay strong, stay together and most of all keep sharing your love and support and nothing will ever bring our beautiful state down.
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