Here I am again, finished another book by Mitch Albom. It's another good book that I'll recommend to all of you, but still, "Tuesdays With Morrie" is the best among the 3 books from him that I've read.
Chick was a baseball player. He once had a happy family until his father left them, without saying anything. So, he became Mama's boy but he didn't really like that idea. He had done and said many things to hurt his elderly mother. He was ashamed by his mother because she was the only divorcee in the small town.
Chick went to college, dropped out of college to be a professional player after his father came back to see him playing and he married Catherine, and had a daugther. He didn't have a good time in the team and he didn't do well in his salesman job too. Everything seems bad to him and he started to drink alcohol. The wife left him and he wasn't even invited to his only daugther's wedding ceremony. He was only "informed".
He realized he was a big failure and he wanted to kill himself. Until then, he saw his dead mother. A ghost? A real person? Was he dead?
I like Michael Jackson, I think he's a legend of music industry. Despite of all the news he had with the kids (yucks!), I like him. Though I'm not his die hard fans, to be honest, I don't really believe in the news. Or to say, I do not know what to believe. Sounds stupid, I know.
Thanks to MJ, we have all the wonderful MTVs to watch along our favourite songs. He's the first singer who started the idea of MTV. And I think, there wasn't any MTV that could beat his. His MTVs are the best to me, always! Thriller(I thought this one was scary when I was young, I mean very very very young), Bad, Billie Jean, Beat It, etc.... None of the MTV I watch nowadays seem to be as meaningful as his, really. Look at those stupid MTVs which show the singers walk around at the street, you know what I mean. I used to have video tapes of his MTV that my cousin, Keat recorded for me.
Despite of the MTVs he made, listen to the songs he wrote. The meaningful lyrics from "Heal the World", "They don't really care about us", "Earth Songs" (the one I played as the background music), I just couldn't help to not believe in the news because of all the lyrics he had written. I know it sounds stupid...
His life, is a tragedy. Not just him, Jackson 5. Being a singer since he was a kid, grew up in the "cacat" family, I believe that's the reason for him being weird. Numerous times of plastic surgeries, "cacat" marriages, weird ways to bring up his child, weird behaviours caught by the paparazzi etc. I hate to believe the fact that all these are true. He's mentally unhealthy because of the childhood he went through. I think.
How could I forget to mention his "moon walk"? It's the best!!! Not just the "moon walk", do you remember seeing MJ performing dance with his body 45deg slanted? How can someone do this? It doesn't obey the law of physics!! What did he do to his body?
I still love his songs though he hasn't been singing for such a long time. I hope he would come to Malaysia or Singapore to hold a concert again, because I really want to watch him live. And I still remember the drawing of his potrait that my cousin, Keat drew for me. I used to paste it on the cover of one of the notebook.
No matter what have the media said of him, to me, MJ is the King of Pop, a legend! Forever...
PS My whole family listen to MJ's songs. Believe it or not, my grandfather used to like him too!
A Dark Place
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I have bad thoughts, sometimes I sink into my dark place and think of all
the things I admit might not even happen in my future, but I'm scared as
hell.
I...