Someone said to me a night or two ago, "Wasn't that such a tragedy?"
People die everyday, I said. Why should it be sadder that this man has died?
"But, everyone felt like they knew him," she said.
Let me think about that. Which is more the tragedy: a known entity with marginally redeeming qualities passing, or all the lives that the people never knew? A tragedy this may be, at least for the man's family. I believe the man lived his life- or, at least had every opportunity to do so- in a vibrant, passionate manner. This was no tragedy. Bon voyage.
People die everyday, I said. Why should it be sadder that this man has died?
"But, everyone felt like they knew him," she said.
Let me think about that. Which is more the tragedy: a known entity with marginally redeeming qualities passing, or all the lives that the people never knew? A tragedy this may be, at least for the man's family. I believe the man lived his life- or, at least had every opportunity to do so- in a vibrant, passionate manner. This was no tragedy. Bon voyage.