Why should it matter who we mourn?
I go on the Paul Walker tag and see so many tributes, remembrances to him. I also see people complaining that the internet, Tumblr especially, isn't mourning Nelson Mandela the same way.
Why should it matter? We lost two great men in the last few weeks, we all mourn differently. Just because we mourn Paul more than Mandela doesn't mean a thing.
Personally, I feel like I knew Paul better than Nelson Mandela. Yes, Mandela did a lot for the world but in my view Paul did a lot for me.
I am sad we lost both but I will admit Paul's hit me harder. Not because I didn't know what Mandela has done for us, for the world but because Paul seemed much closer to us fans.
It's not culture or a world difference I don't think. It's just that some of us, a lot of us, it seems can feel closer to some celebrities/people of the world than others.
Give us credit. We all know about Mandela, maybe not everything but we know he did good. But Paul...Paul is much easier, at least to me, to understand, to feel as if I was a part of his life, and I have never been.
I mourn each and every person we lose, even if I don't know them. Because that is another life gone, another human that has done good or would have, another life that is lost and never again seen.
But we each mourn differently and for different people. Stop, please stop trying to make us feel guilty for not mourning Nelson Mandela the same way we mourn Paul or we mourned Cory.
Stop. It's not the same thing. It will never be the same thing. Let us mourn who we want and don't get all snotty and bitchy because we haven't said anything about anyone else.
Just stop.