James Kim and Stepping Back

I have several friends who knew and worked with James Kim. I also worked for TechTV, an organization Kim worked for before CNET. But I never knew or met him. Yet I’ve had numerous conversations about the tragedy of his death over the past several days with a number of people.

As a father of two young daughters I immediately identified with him and the desperation he and his family must have felt. In fact I was moved to tears several times reading about the whole episode.

As I sat on Friday waiting for the bad customer service at my local Sprint store and started grumbling about that I thought about Kim and his death. “What have I got to complain about?” I thought.

There are so many things that most of us have to be thankful for, it’s too bad that I and so many people I know get bogged down by the dramas, politics and minutiae of our daily lives.

Unfotunately it often takes a tragedy like the death of James Kim to remind us that we are fortunate indeed just to be heathly and, unlike Kim, alive.