...Why?
Why
when walking to a drawer and your girlfriend casually states, as simply
as asking for a glass of water or if the newspaper arrived, that the
Ultimate Warrior died, do you suddenly stand slack-jawed making 15
breathy noises of confusion none of which are words?
Why is that?
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People
die all the time. Famous people, tragic people, boring people, young,
old, hairy, wiggly rainbow or spinach farming people. People die. It's
what we do. Blah blah mortality, etc.
Beauty is only more apparent because either it fades, or we do, etc.
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Perhaps... I mean, Superman died in 1992, (wow headlines!). George Harrison died in 2001. But folks like James Hellwig/Warrior don't just blur the line between fictional and actual personas, rather they make an illegible, brutal mess of said line.
Plenty
of my childhood heroes have karked it, actual people, family members,
characters written out of stories. But there was only one Warrior.
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Maybe
you don't like wrestling. And, okay, while he leaped around playing
pugilista, got selected most alongside Macho and Hogan in Technos' WWF
Superstars arcade game, became the most enviable collector card at my
primary school and released a mild brain seizure of a comic book.
He got the job done.
Besides,
two weeks back I realized I hadn't been a child for a few years, and it
struck me to read up on where the Warrior might be now. And I
discovered he had a blog. (link) I was amazed.
Water paintings of political and historical thinkers and doers. Quotes, thoughtful, both coined and original.
Amazed, yeah I was. Because of the sincere self-awareness, not entirely selfish, the knowledge that Hellwig's fantasy of the Warrior identity had a very real purpose.
He got the job done.
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Besides
I was having a particularly shitty day and nothing's gonna' kick your
arse outta' self-pity mode like a steaming hot cup of Warrior blog.
Works better than Henley's Invictus.
Yeah.
That's why.
Yeah.
That's why.
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So thanks, James. Thanks, Warrior. You two make a great team. Rest In Honour.
"Peace. Better kept when given freely." - rihia2k
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