maybemaybenot
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It's funny: I don't know what camp I am in. I was not a big fan of his music, altho I greatly admired his talent. I was a huge fan of his dancing and theatrical talents. I watched his videos and shows he was on to see his dancing. I remember watching the Motown tribute show that he moonwalked in. I was impressed with that, but what really blew me away was when he went en pointe and held it there and the position of his body. I was still dancing in the state ballet at the time and just sat in awe. I watched that clip last night with a friend and still was oohing and awwing about it. lol
As he got radical in his plastic surgery, I thought him freaky, un natural. And completely ruining, what I thought was a pretty good looking man. I didn't really follow him, so to me, I concuded he was very troubled. No one who is * normal * so radically changes his appearance. Like that woman who is plastic surgerying herself to death to look like Barbie. But it didn't change my mind about his talent.
I remember watching a show in which MJ was in Vegas, it was a documentary type show and he was shopping at the Venetian. I had just been to the Venetian a few months earlier and there was one particular shop that had the most beautiful Faberge eggs and other Russian art. Michael was literally speeding thru the shop, barely looking at itmes and saying : I''l take that.... and that.. I'll take that. he never picked up an item or really stopped to look at it. I remember it well, I was watching it with my parents and I said to them, this guy has huge addiction problems. I didn't mean he was on drugs, I was referring to his actions and behavior and a shoppng addiction. Knowing addicitions are usually dual or multifaceted in nature, I was suspect that he had or would have a drug issue. I felt sorry for him, because his action were that of someone trying to fill a void with
" things ". For the greater part of his life, he was tragic, sad and pathetic. That is not said with malice, it is said as fact. Those of you who lovd and adored him most likely do not have hopes that your children will aspire to live his life, nor would you wish to have lived it yourselves. His was a life overflowing with possiblilities and save his " king of Pop " status, he had very little.
I won't comment on the " controversial stuff ", except to say: . I am not sure I believe the case that was brought to trial, but I do believe the other youngins that accused him.
Whatever he did or didn't do, it is/was very apparent that MJ was mentally ill. Sadly for him, he did not have any one who loved or cared about him enough to do what Brittany Spears family did. Get conservetorship and try to help him become whole again. No child should have been left in his care. Forget about the allegations, MJ was just not stable enough to raise children in a healthy environment.
I am a religous woman, so I hope Michael Jackson found salvation before he died. None of us know what he did in his private moments over the last years, days or hours. No one knows what he may have privately asked God. To those who may take issue with that.... MJ himself spoke of his belief in God, so I am speaking as one believer about another believer.
I AM saddened at the circus his death is becoming, altho, not really surprised. I am appalled at the photo of him being taken from his home, obviously dead, on a stretcher, hooked up to stuff and being worked on by the Paramedics. Also at the video of his shrouded body being transported from the hospital to the morgue. As someone who just recently lost her Dad in a tragic/sudden accident, who was taken from his home in a similar manner, I cannot imagine how his family feels seeing that. That is an image I try to forget everyday. Maybe I am a bit sensitive, but I think it is horrible.
No matter what ones thoughts are on MJ: a mother lost a son, children lost a father, siblings lost a brother and their pain is immeasurable. MJ is in another place now, hopefully whole and unfettered. The humane thing is to respect his family and loved ones. Because it really isn't about MJ any more. It's about those he left behind, whose pain is immeasurable and sorrow will never be gone. I fear for those little children. I pray they are taken into aninimity and left to grow as normally as they can. There is something called truamatic death. It refers to death from suicide, homocide, accidental death etc. Such is the case of MJ. It is the most difficult death to grieve, closure often never comes to the survivors. I think that is where my saddness in his passing comes from. My best friend lost her sister to truamatic death, I lost my Dad that way. When I tell you the pain is physical, I am not speaking metaphorically. And my heart breaks for his family and loved ones. They belong to a small club, that I also belong to. Different circumstances, same grief and pain. I, at least, am left in peace to deal with it.
We have had years, no, decades to condem, castrate and dispise MJ, if that be your feelings in his death. It's all been said, it's all been thought. Any man's death should not be an opportunity to further denegrate another. Those who feel that way will have ample opportunity in the future. I do not suggest anyone change their mind or say nice things when they don't feel that way. I suggest you look at the bigger picture and realize there are people < his family > who are alive and are hurt, and just may have been hurting for years, watching their loved one fall into a black hole. To offer a kind word or thought for their pain, certainly compromises no one's personal values.
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< Message edited by maybemaybenot -- 6/27/2009 8:33:39 AM >
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