This Mail On-line article made me sad.
As did this is age-enhanced childhood picture that accompanies the article, showing what Michael Jackson would look like now at age 50 if he’d never had all that cosmetic surgery.
Yesterday I twittered this fabulous quote I’d come across on the Colon Club message board. Later raincoaster countered with its ‘opposite’…
“It is never to late to be what you might have been” George Eliot
“Very early in my life it was too late.” Marguerite Duras
I wonder if it was always ‘too late’ for Michael Jackson. And I really hope that it’s not too late for me. I feel like I still have so much growing up to do. And, as I posted elsewhere, I would like all this cancer stuff to at least end up with me becoming a somewhat wiser and better person. Boy, I’d better get to work!
~ article via Miss Cellania ~
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Wow, that is a sad picture of Michael Jackson. And I like the quote by Duras. There is something bittersweet to it. I hope you are doing well. Thinking of you.
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I always have the feeling I was born about 20 years too soon. What that has to do with anything, I don’t know. One thing I do know is that we don’t control the Universe, and it’s exhausting to try. Just keep staying in the moment.
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So you twitter, eh? I signed up, did two tweets and forgot I’d signed up. Do you find it enhances your lif in any way?
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I was wondering the same thing about twitter. I went to the place you linked to, and it seemed very disjointed and confusing. I also have fears that something like twitter would make my poor elderly senile computer get terminal constipation.
Michael Jackson is profoundly sad. The difference between him and you is that you actually want to grow and change. He wanted to stay in his childhood and never change and grow.
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Twitter is just an extra way of keeping in touch and posting things that wouldn’t warrant a whole blog post, mostly comments or ideas or what-have-you. Just a bit of fun.
The sad thing about that computer generated photo of ‘what might have been’ for Michael Jackson is that I can actually see the young MJ in that pic of a healthy and handsome 50 year old man. I can’t see him in the monstrous reality of what he has actually become.
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It is truly sad that he could not trust his life to bring him to that healthy reality, and instead got sidetracked into his sad fantasy.
Okay, twitter sounds like a decent idea now that it is explained. but it would still probably give this ancient case of chips indigestion — having scrabulous up is sometimes too much information for it. New computer is on the agenda.
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I agree with the sad. How can someone who is/was so talented have been so not in touch with who he really was that he was willing to go through, well, mutilation in search of himself?
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