A Real Tragedy

I need to be selfless and step away from my "tiny world" for a moment and reflect on a real unfortunate event that just happened today. Tim Russert, political commentator and host of "Meet The Press", died suddenly today from an apparent massive heart attack set off by a loosened atherosclerotic plaque at the very young age of 58. Now, I'm not a guru on the goings-on of all things political, but I try to keep a minimum general knowledge of how things are going in the current political race, and part of that was through "Meet The Press" which I would occasionally catch on AFN in Japan. I was really saddened to see how such a passionate figure in the world of political journalism, and the world of current affairs in general (not to mention, a father and a scholar), was just suddenly taken from us. The most profound tragedy of it all for me is that Tim won't ever know the final outcome of possibly the most important election of the modern age, something he was so intimately involved with. Or, maybe, from the afterlife, he will know. But in the grander scale of things it just won't matter at all - who's democrat, who's republican, who's red, who's blue, who's liberal, who's conservative, who's rich, who's poor, etc, etc, etc.

God bless you Tim.