Following this awful news yesterday I couldn’t even visit the boards.
Christopher Reeve first touched my life as a child and I will never forget sitting down with my father on a Sunday afternoon and watching Superman. Watching a man that could fly and seeing Christopher Reeve portray him in such away changed the way I thought about things and made me look at film, and television and the whole superhero genre in a completely and fascinating way.
But then he touched me in a very different way many years later when I finally sat down to read his autobiography ‘Still Me’. As you can tell from my sig that I have had since then, this book and the story of Chris Reeves life touched me in a way I never thought possible. Reading the story of a man that I have never known but one with such courage, determination and strength made me look at my life in a very different way. I was suffering from mild depression at the time and he made me realise that I was lucky enough to simply be able to breathe; from then on I never looked back.
I am devastated at his death. May rest in peace and may we all be grateful for encountering such a special and admirable man that touched and changed all of our lives.
