I can’t argue with that. I just don’t get into this stuff really, Even the Baby Jessica story was sort of a back burner thing that I didn’t pay attention to. The one thing I remember from that story is something we can all learn from:
The 15 minutes of fame for the fireman who’s photo holding her became viral ended up being fata. He killed himself.
That is the single aspect of the story I remember.
When a parent has a healthy smiling 11-year old that they love and guide and one day learns that their child is missing deep somewhere inside a mountain, perhaps dying of hunger or suffocating from a lack of oxygen, or perhaps impossible to rescue, a darkness descends on the soul.
And when such parents learn their child has been found but that rescue may be impossible, that oxygen levels are depleting, that monsoon rains that caused the nightmare to begin with, are starting again, a primal instinct takes over all adults involved.
To see how people come together to figure a way out of the predicament that has a potential for fatal consequences on both sides, both rescuer, and rescuee, this is a story of human survival against the odds.
It becomes gripping as it takes over our most basic emotions. Because it’s not simply a straight walk into a cave, it is an almost impossible path to rescue and yet here we see these hero divers and support people come together and achieve the impossible.