
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/25/michael.jackson/index.html?iref=mpstoryview <- news from CNN
realllyyyy???
wow this news shocked me as it was the first thing to pop up on my news feed on my igoogle...
the protest in Iran, more death in Iraq, Pakistan.. hey even politicians that cheat... really it doesn't suprise me at all.. what's new.. i have always been pessimistic of human nature..
but MJ??? you would think he would live forever... that he was beyond death..
the most recognisable musical figure of 'my time' or at least I grew up with his music..
life has always been fleeting.. we quote the temporary-ness of time and its fragility all the time.. about living life to the fullest, about having no regrets, about treating yourself well..
we say things like money and fame doesn't buy you happiness... and true friends are hard to find..
also true talent and the ability to connect.. now known as the X factor.. is also rare..
I guess MJ embodies all the good and the bad examples of what life holds..
and when you are gone- your memory is the only real legacy you leave behind and eventually that also fades away..i guess it ties back with my 'theory' on why religion and the concept of everlasting life after death is so alluring.. because if this short, brutal life that we live.. this being just all that there is.. is too sad and wasteful to phantom.


