R.I.P Steve Irwin

I am currently on the high of having opened up this blog site ( is that whats its called !! ) so thought i might as well continue writing !! i guess i might as well write about whats going on here currently .... Steve Irwin ... now who would have seen that coming ? not me for one !! When Nandita called n told me the news I was so so so sure she was joking .. coz even then no TV Channels were showing it as breaking news ... but 30 mins after that it began pouring in ... imagine..steve irwin ...dead.. killled that too by a Stingray !!
heck...ppl like him are not supposed to die .. no i mean it ..they are not .. they r supposed to continue being larger than life images ... and they r supposed to live for ever ...
let me be honest though... in the very beginning ... i really didnt think that highly of him ... i found him to be too loud and boistrous for my liking ... every time i saw him on tele i wud say " surelyyyyyyyy you can talk softly !! " .... then things changed. I happened to go to Australia Zoo .. for the second time mind you. And that was during the school holidays !! So Bindi was doing a show... Bindi and the Crocmen... it was Steve's daughter with 4 boyzone wannabes.. singing n dancing for about 30 mins ... and who should be there but Steve himself ..with Terri .. Bob Bob .. and i think even his manager was there ... he sang and danced through the whole 30 mins from the stands with his daughter... he never sat still ... neither did Terri... and it was at that point the coin dropped for me . the love that i saw in his eyes for his lil one ...the pride i saw in him was something i had never seen before !! at one point he got up with bob bob n danced too .. and the look of pure awe..love.. admiration i saw in bindi's eyes... i knew wasnt one that happened suddenly.... every other stanza she wud look at her dad n mom .. they wud cheer n smile n clap.. and she wud bloom !!!! yes sitting through 30 mins of a 8 yr old girl singing about animal with 4 men who clearly shudnt be there ... was a bit too much to take it ( and i remember even mentionning it to my friends!! ).. but it was was worth it coz i finally got to see what others were talking about...about what it was about Steve Irwin that made him unique...
Shortly after that i read an article of him n his family ... of how he is a morning person n how he does all the cooking ..and the only thing that puts him into a panic mode was changing Bob's diapers !!! ( ahaha he can fight with crocs but cant change a diaper.... it was comforting to know that even Steve Irwin had issues with changing diapers !! ) .. and there was so much that Terri told of him as an individual that made me actually believe in everything he said or did ..and made me see him differently !!!
Now hes gone ... and i have to ask .. where is the justice in all this ..people who kill , hurt , destroy are actually walking this planet and one that does good has been taken away . its not fair is it ? rite now theres this girl.. who has lost her hero... she herself had sais a few years ago , aged 4 or 5 that , " i take after my dad " ... is it fair to her ? or fair to bob who is only 3 .. might not even grasp the concept of death .... but still hes lost a father ....
and you know whats the worst of it all .. individuals like Germaine Greer.... surelyyyyyyy one knows never to speak poorly of the dead .... i am sure there are many out there who might have their own opinions about Steve Irwin.... but surely to stand up and openly criticize such and individual. If he was harming there animals like she claimed he was.. then y was he called a conservationist ???? she said steve irwin was an embaressemennt to the australian people... well i guess i am in good authority to say that ..Germaine Greer is an embaressment to the HUMAN RACE !!!
well at the end of the day .... hes gone ... but atleast he died doing what he loved... right now that will not be of any comfort to his family ... but in time i guess time will heal all wounds... and after all look at his legacy.. look what he has left behind .... a family thats loved by the world .... 2 children who are soon gonna change the way this world views animals and conservation .. and a woman who will support them throughout their life !! he definitely lived a short life..44 is not old !!... but hell he packed a whole lot of love n lives into those 44 yrs !!!
R.I.P Steve.....