Is it weird to feel personally effected and cry for someone's death who you didn't know?

Some of you may know by watching local news, but two days ago a seventeen year old student drowned in a school pool, by some freak accident. Well, that school was mine and now it's a wreck, pure chaos actually. So many of my friends knew Vincent and everyone is mourning and having such a hard time. I didn't even know him, but yet I'm sitting here crying for his friends, grieving for his family, hurting for the future he no longer has. Is it weird to be so shaken up and feel so personally effected by the death of a classmate who you had never met?

I just don't know how I feel, I just know that my heart hurts to all his friends who can't stop crying, his mother who is all alone, and the hard time my school and the faculty and staff is having.

Is it weird to feel personally effected and cry for someone's death who you didn't know?norton 2008

You nare not wiers - you are empathatic - feeling empathy for the peopel asround you - feeling and understanding their grief and and pain though it is not personal to you, You would probably make a great counsellor in the future.

Is it weird to feel personally effected and cry for someone's death who you didn't know?pop up blocker

No it is not weird at all, it just shows that you are a caring person, you have a heart. You care about others and you don't enjoy when others are in pain. Also this accident happened in your school, so obviously you are going to feel something about it.
This just means you are a compassionate person. The world needs more people like you.
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this is common and the way most people respond to a tragedy there isn't any thing wrong with you and if you are reacting more than most it is because of your age and you are more sensitive than most
Nothing weird about it,, you are just more of a sensitive person who easily feels compassion for someone else who has had a tragic event alter their life even thought you did not personally know him or those connected to him...Nothing wrong with the show of emotion but don,t dwell on it....
no, it's normal. don't feel bad. go ahead and cry.
No it's not weird at all. I hope the school brought in greif counsellors...they do that here.
First of all, I'm really sorry to hear about that. I don't think it's weird that you are greiving for him. Sometimes just watching the news makes me cry, and I'm not even close to knowing those people. So in short, no, I think that's pretty normal. God bless.
its perfactly normal to feel this way. ur hurt by the way his friends and family are hurting.

a boy in my school died 2 years ago of some sort of desise and i cryed for a while even tho i didnt no him. alot of people did.

seeing other people hurt makes u sad and u cant help it. it probably makes u a more caring person then if u dont feel sad.