Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
. . . & the Good Lord called him home…
“I hate to see suffering, I hate to see people in need and I feel God gave me a gift and I have to use it responsibly by giving back and I’ll do it until I have pennies left or the good lord calls me home.”
-Michael Jackson
“Night-shift” by The Commodores!
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Commodores performed at Wembley Arena in London on June 25, 2009, the night Michael Jackson died. It was a somber experience for the Commodores to hear that news as they walked off the stage . . . 
Night-shift re-recorded in love!
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Rock Hill doctor helped saved Michael Jackson's life after 1995 rehearsal collapse...
http://www.heraldonline.com/front/story/1458834.html
His pic is on the site.
Published: Wednesday, Jul. 08, 2009 / Updated: Wednesday, Jul. 08, 2009 07:31 AM
Rock Hill doctor helped saved Michael Jackson's life after 1995 rehearsal collapse
By Andrew Dys, Columnist - adys@heradonline.com
When Dr. William Alleyne II heard about Michael Jackson's death last week while on vacation, this doctor who specializes in lung ailments in Rock Hill turned young again.
In his mind, he was just Bill Alleyne, the young guy who spent money out of his pocket to buy Michael Jackson albums. The guy who became a doctor and took his new bride to Michael Jackson concerts.
“It was an overwhelming sense of sadness,” Alleyne said.
Sure, Bill Alleyne is a Michael Jackson fan like millions. But Dr. William Alleyne had more reason to be sad than most fans. Alleyne said Tuesday, for the first time in 14 years, “I was the doctor who saved Michael Jackson's life.”
In December 1995, Alleyne was the critical care director at Beth Israel North Hospital, on the Upper East Side in New York City across the way from the mayor's Gracie Mansion. He was the guy in charge when one of the nurses told him, “We have Michael Jackson coming here.”
Alleyne didn't believe it then.
“I said, ‘Ha, ha, very funny,'” Alleyne recalled.
He had seen patients who were stars, or spouses of stars, but this was different. Thousands of people started clamoring outside the hospital. The place was turning into bedlam.
“Ten minutes later, they rolled Michael Jackson in on a stretcher,” Alleyne said Tuesday from his Rock Hill office where he's one of the partners at Carolina Pulmonary Physicians. But in 1995, Alleyne was the doctor to the King of Pop. Jackson had collapsed after a rehearsal for an upcoming HBO special at the nearby Beacon Theater.
Alleyne and his wife had seen Jackson before in concert, on television, and now, in 1995, Jackson was waiting, unconscious, for Bill Alleyne to save his life.
“Mr. Jackson was in critical condition,” Alleyne said. “He was dehydrated. He had low blood pressure. He had a rapid heart rate. He was near death.”
Alleyne went from doctor to a star to doctor of a man who could die. Alleyne, an acquaintance of Jackson's doctor at the time who had seen some of that doctor's patients, had been picked personally by that doctor to be the attending physician for Jackson's emergency care. Alleyne gave the order to have the defibrillator ready if needed to treat the abnormal heart rhythm of the most famous entertainer with the best rhythm on Earth.
After about an hour or so that December dusk, Alleyne said he had Jackson stabilized with intravenous fluids and other treatment, and transferred Jackson to intensive care. But in the meantime, the crowd outside had become massive, a mob scene.
“I looked outside the window, and the crowd was shoulder to shoulder, huge, far more than when the mayor's mansion across the street had hosted the pope, the president, even Nelson Mandela,” Alleyne recalled.
And inside the hospital, Alleyne said, “it was absolute pandemonium.”
Jackson's entourage had muscled into intensive care. Alleyne had a brief showdown with one bodyguard who did not want to let Alleyne in the room again after Alleyne had left briefly. Alleyne recalled he said to the bodyguard, “Your boss is dying in there, and I am going in there to save his life. You can be the one who has to say you wouldn't let me in.”
Bill Alleyne walked in and saved Michael Jackson.
But the crush of people inside wasn't over. The entourage of Jackson's then-wife, Lisa Marie Presley, came in. Presley came in, too. Then through the middle of the crowd, another entourage, and Janet Jackson, Michael's sister.
“Here is Janet, drop-dead, stop-the clock gorgeous, and she said, ‘Thank you for taking care of my brother,'” Alleyne recalled.
Alleyne found time to call home. His wife, Cheryl Courtlandt, a physician herself who now is a pediatrician at Levine's Children's Hospital in Charlotte, was home with two small kids.
“I'm gonna be a little late honey,” Alleyne told his wife. “Turn on the news.”
He told his wife Michael Jackson was his patient, and she said to her husband, verbatim, in words Alleyne will never forget: “Well, you take care of Mr. Jackson and hurry home, because I have two kids here and you need to take out the garbage.”
Jackson soon was stable, and Alleyne and Jackson started a doctor/patient relationship similar to all in theory but unlike any relationship Alleyne had ever had in practice. As people were climbing trees to get pictures of inside the hospital, as Jackson's fans sang his songs outside and the world press invaded the sidewalks and street for information about the condition of this most-famous man, Bill Alleyne tried to keep Michael Jackson alive with intravenous food and care.
“Michael Jackson was the most soft-spoken, least demanding guy you would ever want to meet,” Alleyne said. “Everything he said was a whisper. His biggest concern was could he perform.
Alleyne told Jackson no way could he perform anytime soon.
Alleyne had to get permission to release information to Jackson's family. Jackson gave it. Alleyne had to deal with other doctors who came to watch his every move, and a world that wanted information that Alleyne would not give to anybody but those Jackson said to give it to.
After about 72 hours, Alleyne and Jackson's publicists and others realized they had to give a press conference. So Alleyne worked with Jackson's people to go over what could be said, what to stay away from but still tell the truth. Alleyne was blunt with the world, saying Jackson did not have any immune system problems because rumors about AIDS were swirling. He was blunt that Jackson had no drugs in his system.
News accounts from 1995 show Alleyne and his then-partner, Dr. Bob Glennon, talking about Jackson's condition to convince the world that Jackson was, in fact, critically ill.
“Michael Jackson was unconscious when he arrived,” Alleyne said. “I had to make that clear.”
Through the next few days, Alleyne was Jackson's doctor. Other doctors came to watch behind him, but Alleyne said he was not affronted. Having others sets of eyes look at his care and treatment of Jackson was understandable.
Jackson had to do what other patients who are recovering must do, Alleyne said. Walk around, be monitored. Except he had an entourage in the next room.
“After a couple of days, Mr. Jackson told me he needed to get his hair done,” Alleyne remembered. “I told him we had a barber at the hospital.”
Jackson's entourage laughed: A stylist traveled around the world with Jackson and would style those locks right there in intensive care. The makeup crew came in, too.
Near the end of Jackson's hospital stay, he asked Alleyne if he could visit other patients in intensive care. Jackson met one lady, gave her an autographed picture after he prayed with her, and the lady told Alleyne, “I can die now; I prayed with Michael Jackson.”
Alleyne recalled, laughing: “I told Mr. Jackson maybe visiting with people who had suffered heart attacks or other serious problems wasn't such a good idea.”
When Jackson was discharged, Alleyne stayed in the background as the cameras went off and the video was shot. But Jackson asked Alleyne to make house calls for the next three days. Blood pressure checks, pulse, all that stuff. Alleyne was the director of critical care — house calls were not his bag. But Michael Jackson had asked, so Alleyne said yes.
“House calls, to the penthouse of the Four Seasons hotel,” Alleyne said. “He had rented out the entire top two floors.”
In one “moment of weakness,” Alleyne said he almost asked Jackson to teach him how to moonwalk — Jackson's famous trademark dance.
But Alleyne kept it professional with Michael Jackson, as the entourages and the world watched Alleyne's every move.
Finally, about two weeks into this whirlwind relationship, Alleyne told Jackson, “Mr. Jackson, you are stable. I can stop being your doctor and return to being your fan.”
All humble Alleyne asked for was an autographed picture for his kids to have years down the road.
Before Alleyne left the hotel that day, Alleyne recalled Jackson telling him: “Thank you for saving my life.”
Then Jackson told Alleyne he understood how difficult it had been for a black man to get to such a distinguished position within the medical world, that Alleyne's accomplishments were inspiring to Jackson.
“It was very touching,” Alleyne said. “I will never forget that.”
Alleyne never gave an interview since then, never signed any book deals or made a nickel off being Michael Jackson's doctor of almost two weeks. He never spoke to Michael Jackson again.
Alleyne, other than casual conversation with friends, or associates in medicine, or among the people at his medical practice, never told anyone of his time as doctor to the most famous entertainer in the world.
Alleyne's own children, son Douglas and daughter Courtney, only learned of his role when a documentary came out a few years ago that had some of the footage of the news conferences from 1995 in it. There was Bill Alleyne.
“Daddy, are you Michael Jackson's doctor?” his daughter asked.
“I said yes, because I was his doctor,” Alleyne said. “I looked at it as always being his doctor, that I had a professional relationship with Mr. Jackson and would honor that.”
This man with Carolina roots in his family came to Charlotte in 1996, then began practicing medicine in Rock Hill in 1999. He's done what humble doctors do: give some time to reading at schools, volunteered, raised his kids.
The sign outside his Rock Hill medical practice only has his name. There is no mention of Michael Jackson anywhere in the building.
Only now, after Jackson's death, did Alleyne agree to share his remembrances of those days.
Alleyne said that he told his wife, only half-jokingly, that the world spotlight would be on the doctors who had recently been caring for Jackson before his death.
Alleyne said he would be remembered as: “I was the doctor who saved Michael Jackson's life.”
Alleyne has, at night the past few days after seeing patients, watched some coverage of the aftermath of Michael Jackson's death.
“That to this day he is so loved comes as no surprise to me,” Alleyne said. “He was very gracious and kind.”
He understands that there were accusations against Jackson after 1995, but that was not the Michael Jackson Bill Alleyne knew in 1995.
And Tuesday afternoon, as tens of millions, maybe more, watched the memorial service for Jackson from Los Angeles, here's what Bill Alleyne, doctor, did: He saw other patients. He did not watch TV.
He helped a lady with a little bit of cardiopulmonary trouble. Another with asthma. More. Each received Bill Alleyne's full attention, as he had given Michael Jackson his full attention in 1995.
Alleyne saw them all, gave this interview about that two weeks 14 years ago, then went home.
Just like he did for those crazy days in December 1995, when Bill Alleyne was Michael Jackson's doctor.
This post has been edited by Happiness4MJ: Jul 10 2009, 01:19 AM
His pic is on the site.
Published: Wednesday, Jul. 08, 2009 / Updated: Wednesday, Jul. 08, 2009 07:31 AM
Rock Hill doctor helped saved Michael Jackson's life after 1995 rehearsal collapse
By Andrew Dys, Columnist - adys@heradonline.com
When Dr. William Alleyne II heard about Michael Jackson's death last week while on vacation, this doctor who specializes in lung ailments in Rock Hill turned young again.
In his mind, he was just Bill Alleyne, the young guy who spent money out of his pocket to buy Michael Jackson albums. The guy who became a doctor and took his new bride to Michael Jackson concerts.
“It was an overwhelming sense of sadness,” Alleyne said.
Sure, Bill Alleyne is a Michael Jackson fan like millions. But Dr. William Alleyne had more reason to be sad than most fans. Alleyne said Tuesday, for the first time in 14 years, “I was the doctor who saved Michael Jackson's life.”
In December 1995, Alleyne was the critical care director at Beth Israel North Hospital, on the Upper East Side in New York City across the way from the mayor's Gracie Mansion. He was the guy in charge when one of the nurses told him, “We have Michael Jackson coming here.”
Alleyne didn't believe it then.
“I said, ‘Ha, ha, very funny,'” Alleyne recalled.
He had seen patients who were stars, or spouses of stars, but this was different. Thousands of people started clamoring outside the hospital. The place was turning into bedlam.
“Ten minutes later, they rolled Michael Jackson in on a stretcher,” Alleyne said Tuesday from his Rock Hill office where he's one of the partners at Carolina Pulmonary Physicians. But in 1995, Alleyne was the doctor to the King of Pop. Jackson had collapsed after a rehearsal for an upcoming HBO special at the nearby Beacon Theater.
Alleyne and his wife had seen Jackson before in concert, on television, and now, in 1995, Jackson was waiting, unconscious, for Bill Alleyne to save his life.
“Mr. Jackson was in critical condition,” Alleyne said. “He was dehydrated. He had low blood pressure. He had a rapid heart rate. He was near death.”
Alleyne went from doctor to a star to doctor of a man who could die. Alleyne, an acquaintance of Jackson's doctor at the time who had seen some of that doctor's patients, had been picked personally by that doctor to be the attending physician for Jackson's emergency care. Alleyne gave the order to have the defibrillator ready if needed to treat the abnormal heart rhythm of the most famous entertainer with the best rhythm on Earth.
After about an hour or so that December dusk, Alleyne said he had Jackson stabilized with intravenous fluids and other treatment, and transferred Jackson to intensive care. But in the meantime, the crowd outside had become massive, a mob scene.
“I looked outside the window, and the crowd was shoulder to shoulder, huge, far more than when the mayor's mansion across the street had hosted the pope, the president, even Nelson Mandela,” Alleyne recalled.
And inside the hospital, Alleyne said, “it was absolute pandemonium.”
Jackson's entourage had muscled into intensive care. Alleyne had a brief showdown with one bodyguard who did not want to let Alleyne in the room again after Alleyne had left briefly. Alleyne recalled he said to the bodyguard, “Your boss is dying in there, and I am going in there to save his life. You can be the one who has to say you wouldn't let me in.”
Bill Alleyne walked in and saved Michael Jackson.
But the crush of people inside wasn't over. The entourage of Jackson's then-wife, Lisa Marie Presley, came in. Presley came in, too. Then through the middle of the crowd, another entourage, and Janet Jackson, Michael's sister.
“Here is Janet, drop-dead, stop-the clock gorgeous, and she said, ‘Thank you for taking care of my brother,'” Alleyne recalled.
Alleyne found time to call home. His wife, Cheryl Courtlandt, a physician herself who now is a pediatrician at Levine's Children's Hospital in Charlotte, was home with two small kids.
“I'm gonna be a little late honey,” Alleyne told his wife. “Turn on the news.”
He told his wife Michael Jackson was his patient, and she said to her husband, verbatim, in words Alleyne will never forget: “Well, you take care of Mr. Jackson and hurry home, because I have two kids here and you need to take out the garbage.”
Jackson soon was stable, and Alleyne and Jackson started a doctor/patient relationship similar to all in theory but unlike any relationship Alleyne had ever had in practice. As people were climbing trees to get pictures of inside the hospital, as Jackson's fans sang his songs outside and the world press invaded the sidewalks and street for information about the condition of this most-famous man, Bill Alleyne tried to keep Michael Jackson alive with intravenous food and care.
“Michael Jackson was the most soft-spoken, least demanding guy you would ever want to meet,” Alleyne said. “Everything he said was a whisper. His biggest concern was could he perform.
Alleyne told Jackson no way could he perform anytime soon.
Alleyne had to get permission to release information to Jackson's family. Jackson gave it. Alleyne had to deal with other doctors who came to watch his every move, and a world that wanted information that Alleyne would not give to anybody but those Jackson said to give it to.
After about 72 hours, Alleyne and Jackson's publicists and others realized they had to give a press conference. So Alleyne worked with Jackson's people to go over what could be said, what to stay away from but still tell the truth. Alleyne was blunt with the world, saying Jackson did not have any immune system problems because rumors about AIDS were swirling. He was blunt that Jackson had no drugs in his system.
News accounts from 1995 show Alleyne and his then-partner, Dr. Bob Glennon, talking about Jackson's condition to convince the world that Jackson was, in fact, critically ill.
“Michael Jackson was unconscious when he arrived,” Alleyne said. “I had to make that clear.”
Through the next few days, Alleyne was Jackson's doctor. Other doctors came to watch behind him, but Alleyne said he was not affronted. Having others sets of eyes look at his care and treatment of Jackson was understandable.
Jackson had to do what other patients who are recovering must do, Alleyne said. Walk around, be monitored. Except he had an entourage in the next room.
“After a couple of days, Mr. Jackson told me he needed to get his hair done,” Alleyne remembered. “I told him we had a barber at the hospital.”
Jackson's entourage laughed: A stylist traveled around the world with Jackson and would style those locks right there in intensive care. The makeup crew came in, too.
Near the end of Jackson's hospital stay, he asked Alleyne if he could visit other patients in intensive care. Jackson met one lady, gave her an autographed picture after he prayed with her, and the lady told Alleyne, “I can die now; I prayed with Michael Jackson.”
Alleyne recalled, laughing: “I told Mr. Jackson maybe visiting with people who had suffered heart attacks or other serious problems wasn't such a good idea.”
When Jackson was discharged, Alleyne stayed in the background as the cameras went off and the video was shot. But Jackson asked Alleyne to make house calls for the next three days. Blood pressure checks, pulse, all that stuff. Alleyne was the director of critical care — house calls were not his bag. But Michael Jackson had asked, so Alleyne said yes.
“House calls, to the penthouse of the Four Seasons hotel,” Alleyne said. “He had rented out the entire top two floors.”
In one “moment of weakness,” Alleyne said he almost asked Jackson to teach him how to moonwalk — Jackson's famous trademark dance.
But Alleyne kept it professional with Michael Jackson, as the entourages and the world watched Alleyne's every move.
Finally, about two weeks into this whirlwind relationship, Alleyne told Jackson, “Mr. Jackson, you are stable. I can stop being your doctor and return to being your fan.”
All humble Alleyne asked for was an autographed picture for his kids to have years down the road.
Before Alleyne left the hotel that day, Alleyne recalled Jackson telling him: “Thank you for saving my life.”
Then Jackson told Alleyne he understood how difficult it had been for a black man to get to such a distinguished position within the medical world, that Alleyne's accomplishments were inspiring to Jackson.
“It was very touching,” Alleyne said. “I will never forget that.”
Alleyne never gave an interview since then, never signed any book deals or made a nickel off being Michael Jackson's doctor of almost two weeks. He never spoke to Michael Jackson again.
Alleyne, other than casual conversation with friends, or associates in medicine, or among the people at his medical practice, never told anyone of his time as doctor to the most famous entertainer in the world.
Alleyne's own children, son Douglas and daughter Courtney, only learned of his role when a documentary came out a few years ago that had some of the footage of the news conferences from 1995 in it. There was Bill Alleyne.
“Daddy, are you Michael Jackson's doctor?” his daughter asked.
“I said yes, because I was his doctor,” Alleyne said. “I looked at it as always being his doctor, that I had a professional relationship with Mr. Jackson and would honor that.”
This man with Carolina roots in his family came to Charlotte in 1996, then began practicing medicine in Rock Hill in 1999. He's done what humble doctors do: give some time to reading at schools, volunteered, raised his kids.
The sign outside his Rock Hill medical practice only has his name. There is no mention of Michael Jackson anywhere in the building.
Only now, after Jackson's death, did Alleyne agree to share his remembrances of those days.
Alleyne said that he told his wife, only half-jokingly, that the world spotlight would be on the doctors who had recently been caring for Jackson before his death.
Alleyne said he would be remembered as: “I was the doctor who saved Michael Jackson's life.”
Alleyne has, at night the past few days after seeing patients, watched some coverage of the aftermath of Michael Jackson's death.
“That to this day he is so loved comes as no surprise to me,” Alleyne said. “He was very gracious and kind.”
He understands that there were accusations against Jackson after 1995, but that was not the Michael Jackson Bill Alleyne knew in 1995.
And Tuesday afternoon, as tens of millions, maybe more, watched the memorial service for Jackson from Los Angeles, here's what Bill Alleyne, doctor, did: He saw other patients. He did not watch TV.
He helped a lady with a little bit of cardiopulmonary trouble. Another with asthma. More. Each received Bill Alleyne's full attention, as he had given Michael Jackson his full attention in 1995.
Alleyne saw them all, gave this interview about that two weeks 14 years ago, then went home.
Just like he did for those crazy days in December 1995, when Bill Alleyne was Michael Jackson's doctor.
This post has been edited by Happiness4MJ: Jul 10 2009, 01:19 AM
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Windows Live Writer
Testing, testing, , 2, 3 . . . I’m using a new Windows Live feature (in Windows 7; I recently upgraded from VISTA – UGHHH!).
Let’s see if it works!
I just luv the cartoon Mikes
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Michael's "alleged" Gay Romance; Message Board Comments
A brief excerpt of my comment on the above message board:
Good grief.
"@Josephine {comment dated: 30/04/2010 14:29} Well said Josephine! Common sense is simple: Hmmm, let's see . . . 1.Dermatologist's office 2.Dermatologist has a PA (PHYSICIAN'S ..."
Good grief.
Idiots are still looking for their 15 minutes . . .
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Song Facts: The Girl is Mine (Paul McCartney & the Beatles Catalog)
... my posting from the above website ...
FACT vs. RUMOR
Here's a link that breaks it all down: http://www.pophistorydig.com/?tag=beatles-song-catalog-history.
There was no bidding war. Michael had his lawyers approach Paul, FIRST. Never mind, Paul had already been approached earlier by the owners, themselves, but he said the price was too "steep." Once he found out Michael was interested, he "CHANGED HIS MIND."
Hmmm ... Paul has two-faces: He has been paying someone else his entire life, & never had a problem w/it until Michael got involved. Never mind, it was on Paul's advice that Michael ventured into this area, in the first place. Now, how would Paul know that, THAT is a great way to make money? OH YEAH! That's right! Someone is PAYING HIM, every time they sing one of their own songs. As a matter-of-fact, a "whole lotta someones." Hmmm, your attitude is very interesting, Paul . . . THAT is what's disgusting. Paul needs to get over himself. He had his chance & he had the money.
FACT vs. RUMOR
Here's a link that breaks it all down: http://www.pophistorydig.com/?tag=beatles-song-catalog-history.
There was no bidding war. Michael had his lawyers approach Paul, FIRST. Never mind, Paul had already been approached earlier by the owners, themselves, but he said the price was too "steep." Once he found out Michael was interested, he "CHANGED HIS MIND."
Hmmm ... Paul has two-faces: He has been paying someone else his entire life, & never had a problem w/it until Michael got involved. Never mind, it was on Paul's advice that Michael ventured into this area, in the first place. Now, how would Paul know that, THAT is a great way to make money? OH YEAH! That's right! Someone is PAYING HIM, every time they sing one of their own songs. As a matter-of-fact, a "whole lotta someones." Hmmm, your attitude is very interesting, Paul . . . THAT is what's disgusting. Paul needs to get over himself. He had his chance & he had the money.
Friday, March 12, 2010
I was watching Bridge to Terabithia, a while back, & something the father told Jess, to comfort him, touched my heart as it relates to our losing MJ, "Leslie brought something special to you, when she came here, didn't she? Well, hold on to that. That's how you keep her alive."
We Luv U & we Miss U Michael!
We're holding on ...
We Luv U & we Miss U Michael!
We're holding on ...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Why do 'the Haters' hate Michael?
A thought for my friends in psychology . . . help me out, here please:
Why do 'the Haters' hate Michael?
My thoughts . . .
For SOME, could it be because they loved him? They loved him for his awesome talents & ability to entertain & mesmerize . . . therefore, with “seemingly” everything going for him – they thought he should’ve been perfect . . . ? They put him on a pedestal, & because of his flaws, they thought it was a bad "reflection on "them?" After all, "...he's different; he's not like 'other' guys..." The haters don't want anyone to know they 'secretly' adore this man...
(there’s a “thin line between love & hate”)
Their "hate" reminds me of the little boy in class who pulls on the pigtails of the little girl he's actually crazy about. You know him! He likes her, but because she doesn't give him the time of day, he has to prove to "his boys" that he isn't a punk & really doesn't care. So, what does he do? He picks on her, calls her names, pushes her around, pulls on her pigtails, whatever he can, to "put her down," publicly. Hmmm . . .
Since their love couldn’t straighten him out, “make him perfect,” they decided to turn on him . . .:
(1). . . because although, he was a perfectionist when it came to his art, his craft/talent, he wasn’t a perfect person in daily life situations; he dared to show he was a human who made mistakes just like the rest of us mere mortals:
-- bad judgment calls;
-- followed bad advice & sometimes didn’t follow good advice;
-- was no more successful w/love than the rest of us (Egad!)
-- The “haters” hate Michael, because somehow, he shows them up for their own flaws & shortcomings; after all, how could this mere human, step up & step out, & become one of if not the greatest entertainer of all time? When you look @ his humble beginnings, it boggles the mind!
No, we - who love Michael Jackson - do not believe we can love away his flaws simply because we enjoy his music. We, his fans, KNEW he was human! We accepted him for his humanness, applauded him for his talents & loved him for understanding his place in this world & proudly taking it. He knew what he was sent here to do & he did it, without apology! How many of us have felt a “calling” on our life, but backed down out of fear? Fear of failure, fear of success??! Mikey has put us all “on blast!”
(2) . . . because there were times when he was easily led, just like a child . . .
(3) . . . because they were jealous that Mike felt free to proclaim, “he never wanted to grow up!”
(4) . . . because they were jealous, since they too, didn’t want to grow up, but were too embarrassed to admit it! (after all, you’re suppose to be a grown man, or grown woman, right?)
Why do 'the Haters' hate Michael?
My thoughts . . .
For SOME, could it be because they loved him? They loved him for his awesome talents & ability to entertain & mesmerize . . . therefore, with “seemingly” everything going for him – they thought he should’ve been perfect . . . ? They put him on a pedestal, & because of his flaws, they thought it was a bad "reflection on "them?" After all, "...he's different; he's not like 'other' guys..." The haters don't want anyone to know they 'secretly' adore this man...
(there’s a “thin line between love & hate”)
Their "hate" reminds me of the little boy in class who pulls on the pigtails of the little girl he's actually crazy about. You know him! He likes her, but because she doesn't give him the time of day, he has to prove to "his boys" that he isn't a punk & really doesn't care. So, what does he do? He picks on her, calls her names, pushes her around, pulls on her pigtails, whatever he can, to "put her down," publicly. Hmmm . . .
Since their love couldn’t straighten him out, “make him perfect,” they decided to turn on him . . .:
(1). . . because although, he was a perfectionist when it came to his art, his craft/talent, he wasn’t a perfect person in daily life situations; he dared to show he was a human who made mistakes just like the rest of us mere mortals:
-- bad judgment calls;
-- followed bad advice & sometimes didn’t follow good advice;
-- was no more successful w/love than the rest of us (Egad!)
-- The “haters” hate Michael, because somehow, he shows them up for their own flaws & shortcomings; after all, how could this mere human, step up & step out, & become one of if not the greatest entertainer of all time? When you look @ his humble beginnings, it boggles the mind!
No, we - who love Michael Jackson - do not believe we can love away his flaws simply because we enjoy his music. We, his fans, KNEW he was human! We accepted him for his humanness, applauded him for his talents & loved him for understanding his place in this world & proudly taking it. He knew what he was sent here to do & he did it, without apology! How many of us have felt a “calling” on our life, but backed down out of fear? Fear of failure, fear of success??! Mikey has put us all “on blast!”
(2) . . . because there were times when he was easily led, just like a child . . .
(3) . . . because they were jealous that Mike felt free to proclaim, “he never wanted to grow up!”
(4) . . . because they were jealous, since they too, didn’t want to grow up, but were too embarrassed to admit it! (after all, you’re suppose to be a grown man, or grown woman, right?)
(5) . . . because they were jealous that Mike was strong enough to be who he was, regardless of the criticism that followed, no matter how much it hurt him . . .
They hate him because in spite of all his humanness, his awesome talents & abilities, he still possessed that heart of a child. A heart that only saw the good in a person – who, like a child, believed that those around him had his best interest @ heart, even when they didn’t. Because he could relate to children, children sensed this & therefore flocked to him. They felt Michael was “one of them!”
Below is something I read on the youtube page of my friend “shine4fairies" (http://www.youtube.com/user/shine4fairies) .” I googled it for more information. Below is the beautiful & insightful passage:
___________________________________________
Our Deepest Fear
by Marianne Williamson
Below is something I read on the youtube page of my friend “shine4fairies" (http://www.youtube.com/user/shine4fairies) .” I googled it for more information. Below is the beautiful & insightful passage:
___________________________________________
Our Deepest Fear
by Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.
And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
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Is this our Baybeh, or what??!
As I read the following commentary
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.
And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
___________________________________________
Is this our Baybeh, or what??!
As I read the following commentary
(http://34thcardiffscouts.org/Documents/Our%20deepest%20fear%20is%20not%20that%20we%20are%20inadequate.doc) from the unknown writer/bloggist, I couldn’t help but cry! It was Michael. I thought, “Oh my goodness, that’s it! That’s Michael!” He wanted to be a “great entertainer,” & he was; however, it was not w/o “great” sacrifice!
In closing . . .
- I never met Michael Jackson.
- I never attended a concert; I cry watching youtube as I feel the life-force that jumps from my monitor (youtube may ban me @ anytime, now – or, Comcast may start charging me more $$ for the streams - LOL!)!
- I had some of his music, but not all of it. (you know that’s changed, right ;-) ?)
I loved him for being the one to “get my parties started!” Yeah, that’s right! It wasn’t a par-tay until Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ started sum’tin!
I appreciated him for his heart & love for children . . . for being so willing to be “out there” & be that instrument God used, by sharing his gift of music & dance to bring some joy into my heart & life, as well as the hearts & lives of others! Music does that! Mikey did that & he continues to do it, even now!
Michael Jackson has always been a part of my life. The fact that he was only two years older than myself . . . well, it’s like I say in my profile: “He was one of those constants in my life, that now he’s gone – it’s a hole that will forever be empty. What can possibly fill it?”
Please, you have to read the commentary for any of this to make sense.
Yes, there’s a “thin line between love & hate,” & the passion of 'the haters' proves it.
Michael was a “child of God who refused to play small, dared to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous!”
No, he wasn’t perfect, he was human. I’m thankful for being allowed to share the same time & space as he.
Happy & sad memories, but I’ll always “Remember The Time!”
Wow! He definitely let his light shine - didn’t he?
Thank you, my dear, sweet “Supernova,” for everything!
R.I.P. Michael! I’ll LoveU4eva!
In closing . . .
- I never met Michael Jackson.
- I never attended a concert; I cry watching youtube as I feel the life-force that jumps from my monitor (youtube may ban me @ anytime, now – or, Comcast may start charging me more $$ for the streams - LOL!)!
- I had some of his music, but not all of it. (you know that’s changed, right ;-) ?)
I loved him for being the one to “get my parties started!” Yeah, that’s right! It wasn’t a par-tay until Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ started sum’tin!
I appreciated him for his heart & love for children . . . for being so willing to be “out there” & be that instrument God used, by sharing his gift of music & dance to bring some joy into my heart & life, as well as the hearts & lives of others! Music does that! Mikey did that & he continues to do it, even now!
Michael Jackson has always been a part of my life. The fact that he was only two years older than myself . . . well, it’s like I say in my profile: “He was one of those constants in my life, that now he’s gone – it’s a hole that will forever be empty. What can possibly fill it?”
Please, you have to read the commentary for any of this to make sense.
Yes, there’s a “thin line between love & hate,” & the passion of 'the haters' proves it.
Michael was a “child of God who refused to play small, dared to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous!”
No, he wasn’t perfect, he was human. I’m thankful for being allowed to share the same time & space as he.
Happy & sad memories, but I’ll always “Remember The Time!”
Wow! He definitely let his light shine - didn’t he?
Thank you, my dear, sweet “Supernova,” for everything!
R.I.P. Michael! I’ll LoveU4eva!
1958-2009
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