It's all relative. I was a bit worried with my skewed way of looking at things lately, but then its just a point of view. Fun to see things in a different way.
In Nob's blog, I recently came upon an entry on Michael Jackson. I've shared it with several people around me, and most people commented on how he looked, how he was tried and found guilty.
I thought of how many people made lots of money off of him. His managers. People who sold things to him. His lawyers. Musicians who played with him. Song writers. Music companies. Surgeons. The list is long. I thought of how these people might have thought in terms of their bank account savings, maybe not in term of Michael Jackson's personal happiness.
I thought of how much l enjoyed his music and music videos. He could really sing. He could really dance. Will he have any chance to find his true happiness? Maybe he already has it. What life he had so far! What life he still will have because people will keep talking about him so long as he does something, anything to get on the news. Whatever he does, he will have plenty of people around him who thinks in term of money.
I thought of how in today's science and technology, despite of best of plastic surgery, he could not stay beautiful, he could not stay young. In his 40 odd years of life, he went through painful surgeries for looks that was to satisfy his fans. If he lives on to be normal old age, say 80 something, unless there is new scientific progress, he will be just as old and look as old as any other 80 something year old man. I am a normal human being. I am not happy about how my age shows in my appearance. But seeing Michael Jackson in his current state made me think of what most of us suffers from, from growing old. It kind of cured me from being upset about growing old. Accept it, and life becomes sweeter.
Then, with the family, I watched a TV show, a program on Discovery Channel shown on a Japanese TV show. It was about a man who hijacked an airplane in US back in the 70's. He was a Vietman War Green Berret veteran. He hijacked a commercial airplane going from Newark to Los Angeles. He only asked for 500,000 dollars. He got the money, he escaped. Nobody was hurt, nobody was killed. He got caught, but at the time, he had not used the money at all. He then went to jail, escaped with several innmates. Other innmates robbed banks, and was eventually caught He also was found leter, but when he was found, there was shootout, and he died by a gunshot.
The story was told in a way that described him as a truly evil man.
I thought of how he might have had to kill innocent people during the war. I found it strange that how he never shot anybody, never wounded anybody in process of hijacking and jail escaping. I thought of how people who decide to go into war is never jailed if they were victorious. I thought of how some people do underhanded business for millions of dollars and are covered with minimum press news story.
Why was this man shown as so evil? All these Holywood movies makes people who kill, who steal as heroes. Why then is this man evil?
I thought, I wonder how many people thought this way? Maybe many. Maybe few.
It's all point of view.
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