re: SIAP - AJ and his girl

I don't mean to get too philosophical, and in the grand scheme of things, at the end of the day, it's AJ who made this little girl happy, but the truth of the matter is it's become the "cool" thing to do to use your local celeb status to visit a sick kid (and the kids don't know any better so the end justifies the means). But, I don't really get why the masses think celebs are great people when they see a story like this. We don't really know anything about them other than someone coordinated them to spend a few hours of their time at the hospital.

I'm not saying AJ is only doing it because of the attention he has (or will get as a result), but when I see things like this it makes me appreciate the lowly folks (foster parents of disabled kids, social workers, special education teachers and teachers' assistants) who dedicate their lives to compassionate endeavors who will never get a news story written about them, never receive a massive (or even decent in some cases) paycheck, and never have their picture on the front page of anything.

Not saying this to bash AJ, but rather emphasize that there are so many out there who do far more but will never receive any recognition. Such is life...