Why do we idolize troubled souls? Chris Farley, Marilyn Monroe, Robin Williams, Heath Ledger.
Is it something we are drawn to? Do we idolize the dead? Make them something they are truly not? Sometimes we tend to see the best in people when they are dead and gone. That isn’t who the truly were alive. Some people tend to be dark souls as they walk on this earth, but when gone from the earth, they are this entity that no one argues with.
Marilyn Monroe was a sex symbol like no other. Was she troubled? Yes. Does that make her less of a person. No. She had some powerful things to say that no one paid attention to until she was gone. It is like the song goes “funny when your dead people start listenin”( The Band Perry, If I die young.)
And after death, you can’t speak ill of the dead. But what if you are starting to omit the truth because you refuse to “speak ill of the dead” Does that make you a hypocrite because you omit the truth?
I am a realist. I am not a glass is half empty/ glass is half full type person. I am a “ the glass is filled where it is, no more no less, end of story.” I am not a big fan of the gray area. I like the clean cut black and white. This is hard at times. Life is not black and white. AS much as I would like to put everyone into either Column A or Column B. Black or White. That is not life. That is not realistic.
But I am getting a little off topic. A mother dies, and she has a different relationship with each of her 3 children. Each child remembers her differently. They aren’t wrong, again, back to the gray area. They both can remember their mother in 3 very different ways. Neither of the children are necessarily wrong or right.
Is it something we are drawn to? Do we idolize the dead? Make them something they are truly not? Sometimes we tend to see the best in people when they are dead and gone. That isn’t who the truly were alive. Some people tend to be dark souls as they walk on this earth, but when gone from the earth, they are this entity that no one argues with.
Marilyn Monroe was a sex symbol like no other. Was she troubled? Yes. Does that make her less of a person. No. She had some powerful things to say that no one paid attention to until she was gone. It is like the song goes “funny when your dead people start listenin”( The Band Perry, If I die young.)
And after death, you can’t speak ill of the dead. But what if you are starting to omit the truth because you refuse to “speak ill of the dead” Does that make you a hypocrite because you omit the truth?
I am a realist. I am not a glass is half empty/ glass is half full type person. I am a “ the glass is filled where it is, no more no less, end of story.” I am not a big fan of the gray area. I like the clean cut black and white. This is hard at times. Life is not black and white. AS much as I would like to put everyone into either Column A or Column B. Black or White. That is not life. That is not realistic.
But I am getting a little off topic. A mother dies, and she has a different relationship with each of her 3 children. Each child remembers her differently. They aren’t wrong, again, back to the gray area. They both can remember their mother in 3 very different ways. Neither of the children are necessarily wrong or right.