So Much for a Prank....
I want to do nothing but walk very tenderly around the suicide of Jacintha Saldanha, who apparently took her life after falling for a prank call “from the Queen.” She was Kate Middleton’s nurse and took a phone call from two DJ’s who were impersonating the Queen and Prince Charles. The account I found says:
Speaking
in a dodgy English accent, Miss Greig said: "Oh, hello there. Could I
please speak to Kate please, my granddaughter?"]
Ms
Jacintha Saldanha can be heard in the audio saying: "Oh yes, just hold on
ma'am."
During
the outrageous two-minute exchange, the duo even had a third person in the
studio BARK in the background and joked about ‘feeding and walking the corgis’.
On the one hand, how low can we go by impersonating the Royal
Family in the first place? Is it really
a prank to “get to the Royals” during a hospitalization and not a hunting trip—where
is the etiquette the Brits boast about?
On the other hand, the suicide itself is too tragic for
commentary directed at her. She left two children behind. The price of failure and world wide
humiliation? Lord have mercy....
The question that I am left with is this--how caught up do we become in what others think of us...so that we cannot live with ourselves?
I have raised this theme in several places that "who we are" is totally separate from the world--our identity need not rise and fall with what others think. Our value, our self-worth is given to us by God and no thief can steal it, no King can buy it, the world cannot destroy it--we are God's children.
Let me say this with all due respect. Which matters more--that we defend the Royal family flawlessly? Or, that we live out our own Royal heritage as the children of the living God? If you do not want the faith
perspective--we can at least say that we learn early to draw a line
between ourselves and what others say about us--"sticks and stones"--you
know the ditty. But some place we need to draw the line or the joke, the tragedy is of our own making.
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