Gone too soon
Current mood: Confused
Michael Jackson is dead.
I feel confused about it, almost disoriented. He is one of those persons that has ‘always’ been there it seems and fifty years is too young an age to pass away at. My heart goes out to his family.
Though I’ve never been an hardcore fan of Michael Jackson, he’s done some great songs that I enjoy listening to.
But it sort of pisses me off when people write stuff like “Oh, now the plastic surgeons have one less faithful customer”. Isn’t that kind of a trivial thing to bring up? I mean so what?
On the pedophilia thing.. He was never convicted of that, and I really don’t have an opinion on the subject, except that we’ll probably never know the truth. Well actually, to be honest, I’d never thought I’d write that, in his defense sort of. There was a time (when there were trials and stuff) that I wondered if I really should listen to his music or try to boycott it. As said, there are songs by him that I love, so I never really could decide. I have thought him strange too, when you read about that he slept in an oxygen tent and stuff like that. But it’s a strange world too.
Apparently he was supposed to do some concerts in London, that would be his last. I somehow never really believed that they would happen. That he would call them off at the last minute or something like that, but I never expected that he would die. I don’t know if this is a ‘bad’ thought or not but… Maybe it was just as well that they didn’t take place. Like I said, I’m not an hardcore Michael Jackson fan, but I wouldn’t want to have read the reviews in the papers if he had sucked. There would have been unreasonably high expectations on him, and I wouldn’t want have read that he had become a bad parody of himself.
I don’t know.. Maybe his death affected me more than I describe. He was, I guess, one of those who sort of defined my childhood in a subtle way, and someone who’d be around forever. But people die and it’s like a lesson we never learn, that someone can suddenly disappear. He was like this icon, not human in a way, and then he dies which is a most human thing to do.. Guess that’s what’s confuses me.
I wanted to have ended this post in a more uplifting way but I really don’t know how, so..
//Syntium
‘Like a comet
Blazing ‘cross the evening sky
Gone too soon’
