I have mixed feelings about Michael Jackson's death yesterday. I have a few thoughts and questions. Let’s ask ourselves who died yesterday? Was it a musical genius, an icon, or a tormented soul with an identity crises and daddy issues?
If you are really sad today let me ask you a few questions.
Strip away the fame; strip away the amazing contributions to music, or even the wildly bizarre behavior, and what are you left with? Just one of the tens of thousands of people that died from cardiovascular related issues yesterday. Are you sad for all them?
Michael Jackson was an icon, It’s sad because we lost a musical genius…right? No I don’t buy that. I contend that Michael Jackson, the legend, and the Musical Icon was lost to us many years ago. Strip away the fame, the amazing contributions to music, but this time keep the wildly bizarre behavior, and now it becomes harder to feel sad at his passing.
Of course this is not to say that I don’t recognize that it is sad when people die, or that it is always painful to a family when someone dies. I am talking about whether or not I am going to invest my emotions in the death of a stranger. In this case, it is hard for me to feel sad. I see an individual with deeply troubling emotional issues, and self destructive tendencies, who was extremely bizarre and strange. I see someone who I would not want to associate myself with and someone in who I was quite honestly repulsed.
What I see is a man with no real support base, no one to ground him, no one to check him and set him back on the correct course. I see him surrounded my other self-absorbed people, who wanted a piece of his fame and glory. I see a man who took his carrier and flushed it in favor of self destructive and bizarre behavior. That is what is sad.
Let me ask you, how sad you were when Anna-Nicole Smith died? Ohh well that is different. Is it? She was disturbed, self-destructive, and bizarre. What is sad about Anna-Nicole is how she got that way, not so much that she died.
What if Lindsay Lohan died today, would you be busted up about that? Or might you take a more jaded tac and say, “She was self destructive and...” Do you see my point?
I’m not glad he is dead, please don’t get me wrong, but I’m not sad either, and I’m not about to idolize the man he became. I was repulsed by the man that died yesterday. I feel sorry for him, but I wont grieve is loss.
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I do not grieve strangers. One reason I have looked at this is because we are so close in age. I also look at stories like this and it reminds me about my own life and how I am living. I want to know if at some point that we do not know about if he accepted Christ. That is my only concern at this point.
I am on Facebook and have lost count of how many status updates I have seen about his death. My first thought was to ignore them. However I have changed my mind and have decided to respond to them all stating that I pray that I will see him in heaven.
Good points. I think the sad part for me is that I always rooted for him to change. So when I heard that he died yesterday it was sad that he never did seem to be honest with himself or have any type of good personal growth.
In my opinion, MJ was the first ever reality show. And, in those reality shows you may hate someone but you are always coming back to watch what happens to them. I just wish his show would have ended better.
Michal's death was a shame,he was a very talented young man,who along the way got lost,too much money and not enough guidenc.Its too bad he wasn't happy or content in his own skin,too many surgeries & changing his skin color,we have to remember for what he was when he started and his talent,try to put aside all the other garbage. May he find peace and contentment in death that he could never achieve in his life. God Bless him and I hope the best for his 3 young kids
I'm with you.
I get kinda frustrated when i take a look at my social networking site.
People just want to get a piece of Jackson's fame. He had nothing to do with their lives. I know that hardly any of my friends who are mourning for this alleged child molester, bought a record of his or listened to his music. He was nothing but a joke before his death. Hypocrites.
Last night I read a status update on the Facebook fan page of a well known Christian duo. It states that Michael Jackson was led to the Lord three weeks ago by a Christian minister. I'm so grateful for that. Regardless of what he may or may not have done the Lord paid the same brutal price for him just like he did for every human being that will ever be born.
I do agree that MJ will be an object lesson for many people. If you think about it every person that dies will be an object lesson for someone. It will make a person reflect on how the dead person lived and how that person is living their own life. If the person is famous one thing that will be thought about is if they had qualities that should be emulated. I think this is a normal process that all people go through when a person dies, especially a famous person that had a lot of influence.
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