Maybe its because i have been watching too much news (seriously, is there anything else going on in the world?) but I am surprised to admit that i am a little sad about Michael Jackson.
Although, really, I have felt a little sad about him for a long time now. I watched an old video of his last night and he was such a handsome young man, talented and even seemed, I don’t know, happy. But then, well you know what happened then.
(watching his life play out has been like a scene in an Indian Jones movie where someones dissolves into ash, or melts into a puddle of goo, only we’ve been watching it happen for like 30 years now)
And honestly, I can’t help but feel like its my fault some how. I mean not MINE, but ours, all of ours. I feel like MJ was, at least in part, a monster of our making.
So what if we began a conversation, now, after his death, about how this happens to our celebrities, who is it happening to now (Britney Spears anyone?) and how we can prevent it? Or if we even can?
Or maybe I just have an overinflated sense of responsibility, i am a pastor after all.
This is exactly what Dave & I have been thinking, Jason. I think your Indiana Jones ref. is right on the money.