Hi Internet,It's Steve posting again today. I know it has been an extremely long time since it wrote a post completely by myself, but I have been snowed under this semester with University and Lacrosse. However, I promise I will start posting more regularly and you can expect to see a lot more posts from me this Blogmas.
Anyway, here's my post about Paul Walkers passing and a few things that frustrated me with some of the reactions on social media websites.
Let's all say it's not an understatement to say that I was more than devastated when I heard that Paul Walker had died. The Fast and Furious films are up there with my all time favourites, and have been with me throughout most of my life.
To say that Paul Walker dying will affect my life in a massive way would be a lie, but to say that his tragic passing will leave an irreplaceable gap in Hollywood and especially in the Fast and Furious movie series would not. From that sense he will be missed not just by myself but by the many millions of other people who are as big a fan of him as I am.As many of you will know by now though, Paul Walker was in fact not driving the car in which he died in. The driver of the vehicle was one of Walkers friends and an ex race car driver named Roger Rodas.
This brings me to the main point of me writing this post. I myself, along with many millions of other people posted status' when we heard the news about Walker, saying how upset we were and that we would hope that he can rest in peace. This however sparked the creation of many memes captioning statements such as 'in memory of the driver who also died in the crash with Paul Walker who nobody cares about' etc, etc.
These posts infuriated me. I have a couple of major reasons why, firstly being the fact that of most the people who I saw posting this picture I know for a fact that they haven't even watched the Fast and Furious movies and were only posting the picture to seem 'cool' and 'edgy'.
My other reason which was the point that definitely got to me the most, was the fact that they were making out as if we were somewhat not caring towards the driver and the fact that he had also died tragically in the accident.
This was completely not the case. We as a race cannot hope to, under any circumstances, grieve for every human being that dies on this planet. Thousands upon thousands of people for every day. So by them making those posts and saying what they did, they're ultimately trying to say that in their opinion we should all grieve for every single person that sadly passes. This just isn't possible.
As a race we grieve for the people who have made a positive impact in our lives and have taken a place in our memories and our livelihood. This is the reason why we feel pain or upset when such people die, as we no that they are no longer with us and that their impact on the world and our lives will be gone. It is for this reason that so many of us were so hurt when Paul Walker died. Yes, I understand it was not like losing a family member in any way, shape or form. But his passing meant the end of an era of films that have touched so many of our lives for as long as we can remember.
It is for this reason, and this reason alone that we failed to mention the driver in our posts about Walkers death. It wasn't because we 'didn't care' about the driver but because Paul Walker had made such a positive impact not just in our lives but in the world as a whole. He truly was an outstandingly caring and gracious person, and the world truly won't be the same without him.
