Lets say that, god forbid, someone close to you passes away. Then, imagine all of the pain you might feel. Then, what if someone who never even met that person tried to console you by telling you how great that person was. Is this really a positive thing? To me, a person trying to pretend they knew the person you spent a lifetime trying to understand, is just insulting.
So, is it any different when a celebrity dies? When a famous person dies, is their really any reason to think of it as a tragedy? You can be sad that a fellow human has lost his/her life, but in most cases, you never even saw that person. You became enamored with an image on a silver screen. In my opinion, it insults the person because they were more than the image they projected. A person worth mourning is a person who should be above what they showed an audience.
Just because a person is deceased, doesn't mean we have to have the knee-jerk response to say they were saints. It may honor a person more if you love and remember them as they were.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment