CBS News covered the much awaited and much anticipated memorial service of Michael Jackson. Big personalities attended the service and some even made touching and well-written eulogies. If MJ heard them all, he will feel loved, respected both as a person and as an artist, and he'll probably realize how big his contribution is to humanity.
Unfortunately, it is when we die when people say the nicest things about us.
It is no secret that MJ mutilated himself because he felt he didn't look good enough or he wasn't good enough. Where did these ideas come from? I believe a family has the gigantic part of laying the foundation of a child's morale and esteem. For MJ, he was told by his own family that he was ugly which led him to do a lot of cosmetic surgery.
The public recognized his musical and artistic genius but for MJ, it didn't really matter since he perceived that his own family didn't think the same way. His childhood (or seeming childhood) was anchored to what his family told him and because it's family, he naturally believed it and so he grew up with the belief that he is ugly and therefore not good enough. It is a great shame for a human being to carry on this untruth up to his grave.
On the other side of it, that belief drove MJ to always do his best. It created an obsession to always prove himself to his family (but it also led him to do physical harm to himself). I think that if his family came up to him and admitted that they were wrong to tell him he's ugly, then who knows, maybe MJ might stop the cosmetic surgery.
In the memorial service, a lot of people said things like MJ was a very caring person, a giver, sincere, honest, a genius, a lover of life, etc. There are some whom I felt were sincere eulogies while others wrote their speeches on what would sound great for MJ because of the things he had done but not the kind that would gush from his heart. Martin Luther King III and his sister Bernice spoke about MJ's greatness and his contribution to humanity but failed to know MJ as a person and his motive for doing such greatness. It seemed to me a grandstanding performance on behalf of MJ. The Reverend also said a lot of things to the same effect and some were so fantastic while others have hit the bull's eye they got applauded. But I liked the real and sincere eulogies of Brooke Shields and Magic Johnson. Theirs was the sneek peaks of the real MJ nobody ever knew like how he loved having fun...sort of like wanting to go back to being a child and experience childhood; how he loved to laugh; and how simple he really was like asking his chef to order for him a bucket of KFC as related by Magic Johnson.
The fact still remains that MJ as a person is loved and will always be loved by his fans. It didn't matter how many cosmetic surgeries he has had or that his real color was black. It was how he gave himself through his contributions, his songs, and the things he shared with family and friends that counted the most and that will forever live in the hearts of those who truly loved him when he was alive.
MJ loved and respected life and it is evident in his music and compositions: "We Are The World," "Heal The World," "You Are Not Alone," "Black or White," "Human Nature," "Will You Be There," and the list goes on!
To Micheal Jackson, I may have never known you as a person nor as an artist but I have complete and most sincere love and respect to all your works. I am sorry for all the untruths hurled to you but in your purest of heart, you never stopped caring for those who are in real need of your contributions be it through your music or your financial donations. The world should rightfully grieve for we have lost not just the King of Pop, but also a human being who truly cared towards fellow human beings.
God bless you, Michael Jackson!
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