As I was getting ready to go to sleep tonight, I saw the following tweet from @zaneology:

When I followed the link, I was taken to the YouTube video below. Throughout the day, news reports of Michael Jackson’s death flooded my senses. At the risk of sounding callous, I didn’t really care. It was presented as a news story, not the loss of a human life. But as I sat alone in the dark in front of the cool glow of my monitor, this video hit me in a really strange way.

Maybe it’s the imagery of Michael as a little boy. As a father, my perspective on children has changed immensely. They’re magical and precious. And I think that’s what it took to put a human spin on this “breaking news.” Either way, the world lost an amazingly talented young man long before we should have.