Tragedy, ranging from an F on a test to, lets say, a deadly disease spreading through your city taking the lives of rats an humans alike, is not something anyone necessarily wants to deal with. Unless you're Olivia Pope.
I think some of use just ignore it and kinda push it to the side to deal with later rather than facing it head on and having to get a grip on reality. Take, for example, people who seem to be keeping calm and collected when someone close to them has passed but break down at the funeral. They ignored tragedy. More than likely because they did not want to come to terms with the fact that they won't be seeing that person anymore. And I get it. I'm one of those people.
Facing reality is hard.
People ignore tragedy because facing reality is hard.
Just a new thought: denial. Like a (tragic) break-up with the peanut butter to your jelly, the cheese to your macaroni (you get where I'm going with this)... You can't wrap your mind around it, so even though it happened, somehow in your mind it didn't. Or you may be in denial about the fact that someone is just completely done dealing with your bullshit so you ignore it assuming that they'll come back.
They won't.
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