foolhandy

His website today.

I’ve just read that his five year old son was in the helicopter too. I know thousands of people die every day, and not due to an accident in a rich man’s toy. And I’m not about to join in with any “People’s Rally Driver” nonsense either. It’s not because he’s famous that I’m feeling the way I do, it’s because I know something about him. I know that his wife and daughter are grieving the loss of half their family right now, and it’s hard not to imagine yourself in such a situation and how you’d feel. If you sit down and think about all of the tragedies in the world this very day (I count 36 specifically mentioned untimely deaths on the BBC News home page alone - and that doesn’t include references to Darfur and Iraq) you’d never stop feeling. When something like this happens I can’t help but think about them all. Maybe it’s bad that it takes the death of a man I’ve never met and know only because I’ve marvelled at his skills to make me feel this way - but you can’t feel for everyone can you? Really. You’d never stop feeling. With the number of times I write it on this site it may come across as glib, but I really do mean it - it makes me realize… I send my condolences to Colin McRae’s wife and daughter, and to every other person who is grieving the loss of a loved one today. With them all in my head I’m going to go out in the sun and tend my garden and enjoy the world that we live in. Today. Here. Now. For me. For them. For us all.

There’s nothing more I can add.