I don’t get how the birth or death of someone famous is more celebrated or more tragic than the same for an ordinary person. How is it more special? How is it different?

A new prince has been born in England. An actress just died in America. These are front-page items of note. But these events don’t affect you in any real way. You never will meet him. You never met her. Your grandchild being born is just as important, and your mother dying is just as sad.

I think it minimizes our own milestones when we pay more attention to the goings-on of famous people than we do our own.