This is IT?

if only he would stop changing his face at that point....


Michael Jackson's last shots on stage are gonna be displayed in the theater in less than a month in Taiwan. For reasons I cannot resist myself to follow the frenzy and buy the tickets in advance. Afterall, I was a loyal follower of his until "Blood on the dance floor". However, within the first mere half a minute after online box office opened, the tickets were sold out. I was left empty handed online at 10:00:45.

Let's rewind a bit, before June 25th, his death, he was referred to as Wacko Jacko for more than 5 yrs. He won a case few years back against child molestation cahrges and I highly doubt the Taiwanese media even reported about the case. I suppose what the Taiwanese people knew about him in those last few years of his life were the incidences where his nose fell and speculations of his pedophilic rumors...

This is what I hate about human nature. Once he is dead, he is, all of a sudden, king of pop again. Fans or non fans swarmed back. People started to say good things about him. All those past "flaws" were erased by his own death. "He was a great father, the kindest person I have ever known"..blahblahblah. If he was such a nice friend and such a good human being, how come none of you, those so called "relatives and friends" never reached out for him when his life was in the downward spiral. It must have been super hard to deal with a superstar of his magnitude (hell, it is hard enough to get along with a normal folk like me already), yet it is no excuse. It was quite obvious that not many people who could give a damn give a damn about him in his final years.

So, once he is dead, every thing about him got sugar-coated. I was watching his clips on youtube the day before his death, therefore u can imagine how shocked I was when I hear the news. However, I was also annoyed by the huge influx of rumors about his death. I could not help to examine all the clips there are on the internet and look at his life to see what it means to be a truly outstanding star. Looking at his life in a greater scale changed all those envy for his talent to sympathy in my heart.

Imagine, being so talented as a child, you have to showcase your talent day in and day out, without any chance of making friends with normal people. That is, without any touch with the outside world. And being a public figure starting from such a young age, there is no way for him to get to know the outside world without getting a skewed image of the world. Only people who sees him as a god, or those who want to use him, would get close to him. He probably never had any people connecting with him as two human being for the sole purpose of making friends. How sad, would that be a life, for any of us. Hence all the weird behavior that follows (all the plastic surgeries for example). Buried under that great musical and choreographic talent is a self-esteem that is scarred and shattered since childhood. As people rising so high at such a young age, emptiness is a common feeling in them. So imagine how an unsatisfying life he has had, and how could he have not turned out the way he was without people helping him out.

This is IT, is the first ripping off of him after his death, would definitely not be his last. Just like Princess Di's death, which many shameless man, with no respect of the dead, revealed their, again, self-claimed romance with her. And this is human nature. Again, I feel effing sick of it. Sick of all the people taking advantage other's life, and sick of people only take others seriously and respectfully once they are dead.

Can't we just care about others more??

PEACE!!