Into the Deep

How one commemorates events probably says a lot about them. I am sure, that for me, following in the “footsteps” of a disaster is not all that appealing.

A cruise carrying relatives of some of the more than 1,500 people who died aboard the Titanic nearly 100 years ago set sail from England on Sunday to retrace the ship’s voyage, including a visit to the location where it sank. (Associated Press)

Of course lightening never strikes twice, and I am confident our technology is a good bit better at detecting ice bergs – none-the-less, I am not going along.

I am amazed how many young adults seem unafraid to follow the path of others who have gone before – to great tragedy, loss, mayhem, and even death. Following their parents, friends, “heroes,” or some other person of interest in their life, they adopt a lifestyle of drinking, drugging, and immorality. They drop out of school, drive like the highway is a NASCAR track, and risk life and limb in incredibly dangerous behaviours. It’s almost as if they have not seen, or cannot look, at the devastation which so often follows those who have preceeded them.

There is a way that seems right to man – but the end thereof is death. Loosly quoting the Bible, it would seem wise to avoid going “into the deep” where so many others have been lost.