Though the news is now a few days old, I’m compelled to acknowledge the MASSIVE and multiple ways that the Chilean miners Killed It.
I mean, these guys could so easily have perished had not every party involved at all times just killed it. It was killin’ it to begin with: the fact that there was a properly engineered safety chamber in place, prepared for a potential catastrophe just such as this. It was killin’ it how the men accepted their circumstance, kept their calm, formed a community, and lived like that for more than 2 months, with utter poise and comradery. It was killin’ it the way they built such an amazing rescue vessel, an almost magical descending capsule dropped through an earth-hole to bring up the miners one by one. The anticipation of each rescued miner killed it, like waiting for some surreal birth, a live human missile brought from the core to the surface. Powerful fanstastic images, feelings. The collective empathy – for the miners, the rescuers, the families, the world – is killin’ it. I think this live video of Mario Sepulveda, the second miner to be rescued, probably says it better than I ever could. The energy and joy in this moment is enough to restore anybody’s faith in the human condition, the will to live, and quest to kill it.
Earlier this summer, when we all first heard about what the miners would have to face, I wrote a post about them. I have enough trouble figuring out ways to endure life itself, but whenever somebody is put in a circumstance where endurance and tough-mindedness becomes immediate, required to literally stay alive, I’m blown away. I made a video 2 years ago on the subject of endurance. It was always one of my favorites, though it has only a few views on youtube. In honor of the killin’ it miners, I’m including it here too.
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