A person's world can change in the blink of an eye. I just received an email, a forward, that informed me that the 14 year-old daughter of a guy I know from my job has disappeared in East Texas. The guy is from California. I don't know why his daughter was in East Texas, and it really doesn't matter. What matters is that she'e missing and has been for several days. Having no children, I can only imagine what it must be like for parents to deal with the disappearance of a child.
I've offered what help I can, via email, but that seems so utterly insufficient. For this guy, for anyone who loves the missing girl, everything on earth must seem to be inconsequential. The primaries, the weather in China, the situation with nuclear weapons in Korea...it must all become instantly irrelevant. And, just knowing of the situation, all these things become less important to me.
A geezer can feel so completely irrelevant when things like this are confronted. There's nothing consequential to be done. We sit and wait and wish. At least we can vote for the President; we can't vote for this girl's safety.
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