But if we can't be passionate about the small things in life, the good things that give us pleasure, then what's the point? To a child, this is huge. Just as important as the Chinese human rights protests over the Olympic torch or who gets to sit in the White House. So your grownup "keep it in perspective" is meaningless to them. Those of us who are adult players of VMK, are speaking for the voiceless ones, the children, who have no advocate for them in the real world to speak to the things that matter to them.
Oh, there are many who are their advocates for the serious things like hunger and child abuse. What I mean are the things that can seem trivial to a grownup but will have a child cry him or herself to sleep. VMK closing is just as devasting to them as losing a job would be to one of us. While we can keep it in perspective, I'm not sure the little ones can without at least a sense that we tried for them to save what they love.