MiCHAEL JACKSON

Fond memories of THriller!!!
Handsome and pure
Sweet innocence to sad conformity (then and now)
Now and what should have been
Well, I found out from a friend who lives far away of the three deaths of famous people in one week. Weird how famous people at least seem to always die in three's. Well I grew up loving him and his music and dancing!! Still do!! The last few years or more have saddened me because he wasn't the real thing. Both on the outside and inside he had changed. I believe due in part to insecure feelings and he just happened to have the money to try to change what he thought were faults, thinking it would make him feel better about himself when he looked in the mirror. I also feel his fame went to his head in a unique way and that not one of pride but HIS world. Maybe he thought he didn't have to answer to anyone. I don't know. He is with his Maker and who am I to judge? What I do know is I love what he was. That my sorrow is for that loss...one that happened years ago but now is permanently gone. I watched his last public appearance in March of this year and strangely he said that this was it. That it was the final curtain call. There would be no more. If he was referring to his last tour coming up in July then WOW! I wouldn't say it was prophetic but some how in his subconcious he seemed to know....something..... Listening to CHer and her comments I agree with her. The boy and man she loved and knew was soft spoken, fun, loving, gentle and sweet. That the last time she saw him a few years back he seemed odd not who she had known for years. So what happened to him? Was his behavior change due to drug dependency or abuse? Was it due to all those surgeries and some kind of inferiority complex? Was it from a world he colored to be all about him? Was it all of the above or only some or maybe none of the above?! I am saddened at his passing and at whatever became of the MIchael Jackson we loved! It's like an Elvis Presley curse. Where you love the young thin version better then the wacked out old one. Maybe this is a curse for all those mega stars who lose touch with the world around them.

This is a good example to our children and ourselves that we should remember we are children of God and we are His child and that we were created after His image. We should be happy with who we are and how we look and that no matter what we do to our bodies; from makeup to tattoos, from hair coloring to boob jobs, from face lifts to colored contacts...that we can tend to forget that we are beautiful just the way God made us!! I want to end this on a funny note even though I may add more thoughts as the days and weeks go by and that is that after his death I bet he was more than shocked to discover that cosmetic surgery doesn't apply to your spirit and so now he has beautiful dark skin and afro and a wide normal nose that isn't on the verge of collapsing in on itself like a black hole!!!

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