I've been thinking about that phrase, "the show must go on."
It sounds noble, doesn't it? Keep going. Push through. Don't let anything stop you. We've attached a lot of virtue to the idea of carrying on no matter what happens.
But I'm starting to wonder if maybe we've taken that a little too far.
This weekend, an Air Force service member fell during a pregame rappelling demonstration before a college football game between UTSA and Navy. He was taken to the hospital and later died from his injuries. I didn't watch the footage, and I don't plan to, but when I heard that the game still went on afterward, I couldn't get past one thought:
Really? We just keep going?
I know there were things happening behind the scenes that those of us watching from the outside wouldn't have known about at the time, and his death had not yet been publicly confirmed. I'm not trying to sit here and judge every decision made in a terrible situation.