It's sad. Period. His life is sad, his death is sad. He never had a childhood of playing in parks or running through sprinklers or going to junior high dances or getting acne or trying out for the track team and making it or trying out for anything and NOT making it. He didn't learn how to build relationships or chose what he believed in or experience the difficult times that give us all character. Maybe I ignored all the hubbub when he was on trial, but where were all of these people then? Where was Brooke Shields standing up for his character then, where were his peeps? I'm not a huge fan of Al Sharpton, but the point he made to Michael's children was pretty poignant..."There was nothing strange about your daddy, it was strange what your daddy had to deal with." Who else on this planet has been through as much fame, publicity, ridicule, prosecution? No one that I can think of in my lifetime...
WE did that to Michael Jackson. We watched the good and the bad, we talked about it in coffee shops, we either made or entertained jokes about his life...HIS life.
I don't know that much about him. I know I loved the Jackson 5 as a kid. I tried to memorize the dance from Thriller. I cleaned my parents house for my allowance to his music. I believe that he was a generous man. I believe he tried to do good...searching for something that was real to him - and that he tried to recreate the childhood that he missed out on. What is reality to us is NOT reality to our neighbor.
We are curious folk, us humans. RIP MJ.
2 comments:
I think you totally hit the nail on the head. I will be quoting you "What is reality to us is not reality to our neighbor". Love you,b
I haven't looked at blogs much lately, so I am commenting on this rather late. I totally agree with all you said, and had the same feelings while the media frenzy was taking place. I loved his music, his dancing, and his talent. I chose to remember all of the positives, and figure he had enough negatives to deal with, I sure don't need to dwell on them. I should stop here, but, it's me, so of course I won't. Considering some personal situations, one might think I thought he was guilty of the child abuse he was accused of. I think in falling into his lack of a childhood, and his desire to have one, he put himself in harms way of people seeking easy money. So, there, I said it, I don't think he was guilty. I think he was super talented, and very lonely. Oh and I was sad he died, just not a weeks worth of constant coverage sad!
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