Billy; [1]
You had an Uncle that worked for The Rock? [2]
[3](Sigh) I’d have loved to talk to him at length on that subject.
Yeah, OK, I picked up on just that one aspect of a full life. Then again, I’m a railfan.
But you know what? Even exclusive of that point, I would still loved to have spoken with him… to absorb part of his unique vantage point of the world and our history in it.
By way of comparison and explanation, I have remarked several times in obits, here, that one person or another has lived a full life and nobody should be sad, because they’re gone, now. I still think that’s true. See, generally when people I remark about here, die… their history is already pretty much known and explored, either by public exposure over a period of decades, or by their their memoirs, or what have you.
But in the case of Joe and Jane Average, just everyday Americans going about their everyday lives, that history, and those life experiences, get lost to you and I and the remainder of the culture. For that reason, I think, those kind of people dying are a bigger loss, than the death of anyone with celebrity.
Your uncle lived a very full life, and it seems to me a shame that so much of his life history should be lost to us.
And yes, I’m using him as an example…. but I have had those thoughts often enough when I see someone I barely knew died, and yet he has so impressive an obit that it takes most of a cup of coffee to read the thing. Or, in your uncle’s case.
My respects on your loss. For the reasons I mention above, it’s a shared one.