The nine Pennsylvania miners who were rescued last week sold their story to Disney for $150,000 each and met with President Bush yesterday. They now face a new crisis: what to do with the rest of their lives. The wheels are turning with some of them.
“I look at life different now.”
“I’m not afraid to go back. This is what I did for a living. But I have a second chance in life, and I’m hoping something else comes along.”
I’m not confident that they’ll seize the day. From these remarks, it seems that they don’t realize that all along, life could have been looked at differently. And that something else has come along already. ‘Hoping’ is understandable but it ain’t likely to produce a vocation. And the money and notoriety could easily corrupt.