It is often only when the person passed away, you will know how popular and famous he was by the tributes and the number of people paying respect to the dead.I was shocked by the news yesterday that Steven Irwin, famously known as the Crocodile Hunter has passed away due to the tragic accident of being stung by the stingray through his chest while he was filming for another documentary video. Though I don't know this man well, but I can still recall the stunts that he did in the past when I was still young. The most famous and memorable one would be the stunt that he put his baby over the top of a crocodile. It was debated heatly at that period of time as some find it unreasonable to put one's baby over one of the world's most dangerous creatures. He did many other dangerous stunts with sharks as well and he was well-known for pushing himself to the limits with such close encounters with animals that no one dare to get close to.
His love and passion for the animals also earn many people's respect as being a wildlife warrior. True enough, many animals has been coming close to the edge of extinction because of the killings for their fur, skin, meat or even their teeth! What's wrong did those animals do to deserve such treatments from us? Sigh...they may be dangerous but yet it is a part of their instinct to protect themselves. Aren't human being even more cruel than them by killing one another and inventing all the destructive weapons in the world?! I remember a banner that touches me at SPCA when I do my volunteering work there: "To you, I am just a pet. To me, you are my everything." Really got to stop the cruelty and abuse on the animals as they are really lovable and they have feelings too....sigh...
Steven Irwin will always be a warrior in the hearts of the people of respect him of all the things he did, for his video which educates us much more on the nature of the wildlife. He is one great man, and it is indeed a great loss for us. It was really amazing at the number of people yesterday who put a turtle in front of their MSN nick. There was actually emails and MSN message passing around telling us to put a turtle icon in front of our MSN nick to show it as a respect to Steven Irwin. It is really surprised to see the list of people who put the turtle in front...it was like almost 80% of them! Haha...hope he will rest in peace now for all the efforts that he paid to save the wildlife. I believe there will be people who will be inspired to continue his work one day. May God bless his family for he will always be up there watching over them now...
"If you spend an hour in depression, you will lose 60 minutes of chance to be happy."
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