HE WAS A SHY MAN... (by Steve Nadis)
I was flipping through the channels the other day, testing some of the nifty features on my new remote. For a minute, I watched a PBS documentary on Osama bin Laden. One of his acquaintances--a schoolday chum, I believe--recalled that "he was a shy man..." And I realized, for the first time, that I had something in common with that highly sought after ("dead-or-alive"), though introverted, individual. (Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, was another "shy man." In the end, I suppose, it comes down to how you choose to express that shyness.) Unlike me, bin Laden is sometimes described as "overly zealous." That's something I've never been accused of. He also appears to have some "anger management" issues. Too bad he didn't take up blogging. Many people find it a useful way to vent the little frustrations in life that might otherwise build up, leading to attacks on the Twin Towers and the like...
