they are especially affected by this.

Kobe was an entertainer. He came into our living rooms a few times per week 8 months a year via the television for two decades. That's a long time. To some he was the villain, to others the hero. But regardless there he was week after week doing his thing. He was on camera so much that every one of us can see him now. We know the way he walked, talked, smirked, smiled, etc..We can see his turn around jumper, his pump fakes, his back peddle after a go ahead three ball, we can see him following through with his fingers pointed at the ground. We knew his mannerisms, his speech patterns, and on and on.

It's only natural to feel a sense of shock and loss for somebody you have watched for so long. We don't have to know him personally to feel that loss.

It's also scary. Guys like Kobe, with hundreds of millions in the bank aren't supposed to go down like this. Many of us have this idea that their money somehow makes them immune to events like this. If this can happen to Kobe it can happen to anyone and that is a shock to the system, especially to younger people who haven't experienced a lot of tragedy in their life.

Then on top of it all we have the loss of his daughters life, and the other lives aboard that helicopter. The children that perished are the most tragic part of this story. They only got 13 years on this planet.

Bottom line, it's okay to feel sad, and probably healthy. Death comes to everyone at some point but if we don't have the slightest empathy for those that perish, especially the young, then that's when you should be worried.