Human Nature

I will try to post as frequent as possible. If I expect people to update a lot, well, I myself have to do the same. Before I bring about what I'm gonna post, I actually forgot to post some guidelines (if it's actually needed) in my blog.

1. I will blog whenever there is something WORTH blogging about.

2. I won't talk about those mushy-mushy stuff like some blogs do; my posts will be meaningful :D

3. Please do not flame my blog, if you do not like it, please tell me, I will take it constructively and try to fix/repair/improve whatever it is.


Blog nature, huh? Now, Human Nature. I had been thinking of this for a long time, even I thought of posting this today last night. I would want to take a moment to talk about the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. No. This would not be some sort of memorial where I talked about how great he was, how dearly I missed him, his great contributions, etc, etc.

Of course I do treasure, love and respect him, but the time for mourning is over. If I do talk about those stuff here, you'd probably flame me to hell for putting something so cliched (mind the 'e') in my post. No, don't worry, it's not about that. This will be of course, about HUMAN NATURE.

Human Nature, of course, is one of MJ's songs. When MJ died, the repercussions of shock were felt everywhere around the world. Instantly we could see the aftermath of it. People mourned and rejoiced for the renowned King of Pop. His songs went on the chart again. so many people paid tribute and all exclaimed how much they loved him, loved his music. How they missed him so much.

That's the thing that troubles me, in fact.

Human nature.

Don't we all just stop and look at something for a moment?

We never appreciate something until it's gone.

Just like Michael Jackson. Only when he died did people say how much they appreciate him, how people expressed how sorry they were, only did people raise funds for his memorial. Only then did people listen to his music. What is all this?

Sometime not so long ago, people ridiculed him like mad. Called him Wacko Jacko, gave him great insults, condemned him a child molester, even indirectly forced him to be in a state of recluse. People are hypocrites. I am not surprised that when MJ died, a portion of people mourning for him were actually faking it. And what about his music? Brilliant! I listened to them again, very brilliant. And why is it that only when he dies, only then people remember his music? What happened to it before then? All swallowed by the mainstream, which I consider mostly rubbish these days, compared to MJ's songs. Even though they are more than a decade ago, I can't help loving those songs again. Very catchy. If MJ did not die, I wonder how far back his songs were stuck in oblivion.

Tabloids killed his career. People are like that. You know, my mum was one who felt deeply for the death for MJ for she was a huge fan of him ,and she knew his background. She even went to his 1996 concert in M'sia. She told me something very interesting. She said "Most of the time people never remember your good deeds, only your bad ones". Very true. Bad ones always overshadow the good ones. Take for example this restaurant. It's excellent, you go there all the time. But once, if you happen to find a hair in your soup, by some stupid mistake they did, would you ever go there again? I bet not. Just like MJ. All his good deeds, overshadowed by stupid tabloids. Like that incident in Germany where he hung his baby off the balcony. Instantly he was criticized and condemned by ALL. God, do they even consider what he was doing? He said he was excited to show the fans his baby. True, he said that he did a terrible mistake on that. Okay, we all make mistakes, and MJ was sorry for that, by why couldn't the people forgive him? Tabloids zoomed up on him, all with wholesome criticisms that made everyone forget the ACTUAL reason why he was at Germany in the first place. To get some sort of Humanitarian award for the charity work he's done on the planet. Because of that incident, it totally tarnished his image, the bad over the good.

Another incident is the child molestation case. Come on, how could they think such a thing? They called him weird with children. Look at MJ's background. He never had a childhood, thus making him childish. But people don't understand. He LOVES CHILDREN VERY MUCH. Numerous times he has donated so much money to sick children. He even said "Before I would harm a child, I would slit my wrists". And yet people still want to take advantage of him, accusing him on child molestation. I believe with his background, never having a childhood, hence now loving children so much, he would never have done such a thing. We just love tabloids, follow them like nobody's business. Soon, everybody started turning against him.

I confess, I am ashamed of myself, for I was, too, not to say against him, but I ridiculed him for the things he had done. If only back then I knew his background. Indeed I was embarrassed and if possible, like to apologize for my behavior. Mum told me it was okay. I wondered why? She told me everybody had been blinded. Even La Toya, Jackson's sister, had been estranged with him, for she actually believed that he molested a child. Imagine, your sister who KNOWS who you are and how you feel, believing wrongly.

I think I really feel Jackson deserved better. Life had been unfair to him. At least now, I could imagine him in heaven, as a child again. Living the childhood he never had with his child friends he never had when he was small. Rest in peace, MJ. Away from the cruel human nature. When will we ever learn, people?

Saturday, July 11, 2009