Today I was going to write up and post my picks for the NFL’s wild card round, but with today’s tragic events it is difficult to look at the NFL Playoffs and view them with any kind of importance. A nine-year-old girl and as many as five others have been shot down in cold blood and a U.S. Congresswoman and at least ten others are currently in the hospital fighting for their lives. All of their family members, and indeed the entire country, are just hoping, praying, and waiting for good news to come. On such a day how can we be expected to care, or even should we care, about the results of a couple of football games? Are they not meaningless when lives hang in the balance? Would it even be right to enjoy watching a game of football today?
If your answers to the above questions are that football doesn’t matter in the wake of today’s events and we should all be focusing on praying for the victims of this heinous crime and not watching a meaningless game that’s fair enough, but I disagree with you.
Now I’m not saying that what has happened isn’t terrible (indeed terrible, or any other word, falls far short as a description), and we should all pray for the victims, their families, and the shooter. What I am saying though is that, if anything, today was a reminder that life is fleeting. Thus we should not spend all day glued to the news as the pundits recycle the same information for hours on end. Gabby and the rest of the victims will not recover any faster if you are watching CNN. Do not spend your whole day in mourning; continue to live your life as best you can. Most importantly make sure to still have fun. Take advantage of another miraculous day you have been granted on this earth and do what makes you happy, whatever it is that fulfills you. For millions of people, including myself, that will mean watching football for a few hours.
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