REMEMBERING MICHAEL - THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC!

I feel that I have to write about Michael Jackson even if his death or even his life did not mean much to me, though I love his songs and “Man in the Mirror” is my all time favourite. But I am just amazed of the enormous, gargantuan impact his demise made on the media. All day long, radio stations were playing his songs…a long marathon – nonstop rendition of hits ranging from his early days with "Jackson 5" to the most recent ones. And it continued into the second and sporadically onto the third day too. Most media stations, from the more serious CNN to Entertainment channels had no other stories to cover apart from what had occurred in “Neverland”. The guy had talent – bus loads of them. But what really went wrong? Wasn’t talent and creativity supposed to make you smarter if not wiser to handle life’s challenges better? Or at least afford you assistants and experts who would be able to help you out anyway? What about friends and siblings???
One memorable phrase I read on what Michael depicted to a writer was that – he is a classic paradox – So adult and matured when he was a kid and yet child-like in his adult life. This tells a lot. A keen Psychologist which I am not would probably be able to write a thesis on this.
Anyway, all I wish is for him to find peace now which I feel that he never had in life…to err is human, to forgive divine!