my clan, Invalid Gaming, hosted a memorial ceremony yesterday on our Moonbase Alpha server. Everybody in attendance showed their respects to the man who made practically everything seem possible.
It is my belief that nobody's passing should be mourned. It is a poor choice of words. I respect Neil Armstrong as much in death as I respected him alive. He helped change the world, and that is all somebody could wish to do in their lifetime. It's like being sad because your faithful old dog, who you've been friends with for most of your life, dies. You have no choice but to miss them, but you know that they had lived a good life, and one can only do so much in their lifetime. I, personally, believe that if one dies before they have the chance to live to their potential, that is a truly sad event. This may seem a bleak, cynical world view, but in the end, you only have to live up to one person's hopes and expectations: yourself.
So here's to a man who lived a hero and died a legend. Somebody we could look up to, not just as an icon of progress, but a sincerely good person.
