You know what is interesting? There are people that Michael has distanced from his life at different times, some repeatedly. But, it's like several were being brought back. Weren't he and Branca supposedly on the outs? Now we find out he had just been rehired recently. It seems, if you are going to believe the article, that the same was done for Grace. And throughout all of that this is the first time we have heard of her speaking negatively to the media about Michael. So, this time it makes me think that the separation, if one in reality, was perhaps more painful or harsh than what was previous. While Michael may have had to be someone special to repeatedly accept her back, she would have also had to be someone special to repeatedly going back.
It seems as if there were some people in his life that he had such a connection with that he could not severe the relationship indefinitely. In cases such as these, it becomes a matter of truly not knowing the relationship to the degree to judge it. What his reaction would have been to all this in the long run? Who knows? What actually caused her to say such since beforehand we have never heard from her, who knows? Just as people were capable of hurting Michael, he was capable of hurting others. Does that justify any mean things she could have said? No. But, if there is anyone here that has never uttered the words "if I could only take it back", then you are probably a superbeing not a human being.
I think to hearing all the comments about Michael. How he should have responded to his anxieties, fears, and pains throughout life. How he shouldn't have tried to create "his own world." I think about the fact that he once did acknowledge an addiction problem and some stated it as a weakness. Well, it was. He reacted to his situation with an unfavorable behavior. But, it was his reaction. And his to reconcile with. I'm sure during this time, he hurt people and that some of those rather than never forgiving did indeed forgive. Someone who knew him was being interview and stated that he always ended with the focus on love. Perhaps this is why he accepted that people close to him, like his sister and perhaps Grace, could say something or do something to hurt him bad but find a way to forgive. He perhaps saw a value in that relationship worth whatever hurts and challenges because he himself was actually in the relationship to know weigh the challenges against the good. I think it is also because he may have acknowledge his own ability to make mistakes that could sometimes hurt others, to lash out in anger or pain with words or actions that could sometimes hurt others. And he realized that as he would want imperfections, flaws, and mistakes forgiven, so he must do the same for those relationships that truly had a bond beyond the norm for him.
To me what made Michael truly special as a person was his complexities. He was not one dimensional in either direction. But, yet the good far surpassed the bad. Perhaps he felt the same about some of those that, while we didn't know personally in order to be able to make that honest assessment, he did.
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