its more 2 it then that, with great success comes great pain. Bein a celebrity of michaels calabor is veeeeerrrrrrry hard and im sure if we had to deal with constant law suits, scrutiny,slander,tabloid trash,traveling and never actually bein @ home, runnin a company,meetings,interviews,photoshoots, the lack of sleep and privacy,not bein able 2 walk w/o a bodyguard,pple always wanting something from u, tryin 2 figure out whos there 4 u and not a paycheck and weedin out back-stabbers (and the list goes on) we'd go running for the hills.
Now im goin 2 be an amazing actor/writer/producer/director but i think ill be gettin it alot more easier than michael. I think bein mike is 1 of the toughest things n the world
You're a smart kid Shaune.
Being able to be as important to as many people as Michael is would be amazing, but with that impact and meaning also comes a hell of a lot of hardship, and Michael's life has taken him in some hellish,
hellish directions, which I think few if anyone else could tolorate. To lose your childhood to stardom, people don't know what that means unless they've expereienced it, and on the
level Michael experienced it. To become the most recognized person in modern history, known to 99.9% of the world's population, and still be able to say that no one
really knows you, that kind of lonliness has got to hurt SO much. People don't understand because they can't relate to it, they can't even concieve of it. Michael used to say he would cry from being so lonely and he once said that it
hurts to be him. It's easy to look at everything Michael has materially, all the adulation that is heaped on him by his many fans, all the acolades, etc... and think "that must be nice". And it is. But the hardship weighs just as much, and in Michael's case, I think it has in many ways outweighed the glory of what he's achieved and can do. But one also has to realize that Michael was
meant for this. He was built to endure all this, because I am convinced no one else could ever have taken the beatings he has and still came out sane and not consumed by bitterness and hatred. Michael is an amazing man. He isn't regretful and he feels blessed to be who he is. He's said that many times. Because he is a humble and greacious human being and he knows the power he posseses. But it's also been very hard, and when you realize that for a long time, Michael didn't seem happy, he seemed to contantly be at odds with things, and he was so lonely, that has to give one pause and realize that the kind of life he's had would be more painful then anyone here can even imagine. He's sacraficed a
lot. He's given his ideals, his talent and his life to the world and been treated as less then dirt in the process. Up until recently, Michael had a lot of struggle in his life, a whole lot, and he seemed, really, like a hurt person. Remember on those outtakes from the Bashir documentary, when Michael was talking to that fool about how lonely he used to get? Do you remember that Michael was barely able to keep from crying just
remembering what that felt like? Feeling like you don't belong anywhere you go, like an alien, feeling like no one can relate to you or you to them, and feeling like nobody knows you or cares about you for who you are as a person, that's
suffocating hurt. You can literally see the pain. That gives some persepctive I imagine. It's the furthest thing from easy.
