Ryan Tubridy

A selection, actually.

I'll come back to that because I don't want to be unserious for a second.

But I knew I was going home to family and friends who were gathering to say, are you okay after this mad day?

And I thought, what about those families?

What are they going home to?

An empty room, empty chair, empty world.

And I thought, just get in there and get it over with.

Get it on the table and sort it out.

And don't be worrying about it because, do you know what?

Although it feels heavy, and it is kind of heavy in your world, it's not that heavy.

That's heavy.

And it put manners on me.

And I dealt with the day differently as a result.

Did you?

Do you think those people mourning the deaths of their boys gave a flying flute about this guy in a taxi heading in to talk to the Arctis about something that may or may not be important?

I doubt it.

Anyway, that was humbling.

Did they know that you were going in to be told bad news or did you let them know soon and they gathered?

So you knew.

You knew.