Graynbow
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An Explanation of why I credit MJ for my sense of compassion:
I just want the world to be a more kind, compassionate, and critically thinking place.
Michael did his homework, not just in singing and dancing, but on cultures when he travelled the world, on historical events and ties to everything he was involving himself in. There's so much gold buried in all of his material that goes over a lot of people's heads. He was a very smart and capable individual in many ways. He wasn't the most socially comfortable (for good reason, a lot of people were 2-faced around him, and even then he would try to present opportunities to those people to help redirect them into turning their toxicity into something positive). I don't think he was age-regressed in the sense that he wasn't capable of acting like an adult, I think there's no way to function normally in the life he lived (imagine going to rigorous therapy and not even being allowed to go decompress by simply taking a walk down the block or even wondering if your therapist may leak information about you) so he did it his own way and to me it was beautiful and messy, just like most other humans who have a propensity to try to make the best out of any situation.
If you take the time to write something horrible or even passively mean to someone on an MJ forum... You are not being kind, nor compassionate, nor critically thinking. I feel like you should really question your life choices and also, I have a sneaking suspicion MJ would not be proud of that kind of behavior (not that his standards are the moral end-all-be-all, but like bruh you good?? (seriously if you need help, please reach out, I'm not on here 24/7 but I will try to be helpful, but I hope others on here will also try to be helpful))
We all need each other, maybe not in ways that seem immediate to everyone, but part of Michael's Power is he understood that inherent value in all people and that he could learn something from anyone (evidenced in how he not only carried himself on camera, but also how he really made efforts to care for people and sought refuge in animals and fellow people with disabilities and disadvantaged children who also could see him as a human being vs "the king of pop/greatest entertainer ever", because he was still a person underneath all of the myth and legend and if all the people who fan over him can't understand that and can't even fractionally follow in his footsteps, then the world has very little hope.
Don't let the world white-wash his legacy to just flashy cool glamor and being a hot court jester/musician/dancer. He was a true producer of spaces that allowed people to explore, develop curiosity, and create on a massive scale. He was a humanitarian in a way most people couldn't fathom without suspecting an alterior motive because the norm then moreso than now thought that different in really any kind of way is bad. This is still a thing today, but its much more normalized to push back against that idea now because...
Michael Was There. (along with others, but he I argue got it the most)
He was there before we came.
He took the hurt and the shame.
He beat down walls and won the day.
It wasn't right or fair.
He taught us all and made a lot of us care.
He was there and thanks to him, there's another door for us to walk through.
We are here for all to see, to be the best that we can be.
Yes, I am here, because he was there.
I credit a lot of my resilience and care and willingness to keep myself alive in such a soul-sucking beginning of life because he was my inspiration at such an early age (10yo) when I was already considering leaving the world behind.
I caught his the-world-needs-more-love bug. and I do everything I can to be the person I and he needed and I wish more people would. I won't let my life allow his (and many others') sacrifices to be in vein. I choose to be part of the solution as much as I can every day and hope to see others do the same. <3
I just want the world to be a more kind, compassionate, and critically thinking place.
Michael did his homework, not just in singing and dancing, but on cultures when he travelled the world, on historical events and ties to everything he was involving himself in. There's so much gold buried in all of his material that goes over a lot of people's heads. He was a very smart and capable individual in many ways. He wasn't the most socially comfortable (for good reason, a lot of people were 2-faced around him, and even then he would try to present opportunities to those people to help redirect them into turning their toxicity into something positive). I don't think he was age-regressed in the sense that he wasn't capable of acting like an adult, I think there's no way to function normally in the life he lived (imagine going to rigorous therapy and not even being allowed to go decompress by simply taking a walk down the block or even wondering if your therapist may leak information about you) so he did it his own way and to me it was beautiful and messy, just like most other humans who have a propensity to try to make the best out of any situation.
If you take the time to write something horrible or even passively mean to someone on an MJ forum... You are not being kind, nor compassionate, nor critically thinking. I feel like you should really question your life choices and also, I have a sneaking suspicion MJ would not be proud of that kind of behavior (not that his standards are the moral end-all-be-all, but like bruh you good?? (seriously if you need help, please reach out, I'm not on here 24/7 but I will try to be helpful, but I hope others on here will also try to be helpful))
We all need each other, maybe not in ways that seem immediate to everyone, but part of Michael's Power is he understood that inherent value in all people and that he could learn something from anyone (evidenced in how he not only carried himself on camera, but also how he really made efforts to care for people and sought refuge in animals and fellow people with disabilities and disadvantaged children who also could see him as a human being vs "the king of pop/greatest entertainer ever", because he was still a person underneath all of the myth and legend and if all the people who fan over him can't understand that and can't even fractionally follow in his footsteps, then the world has very little hope.
Don't let the world white-wash his legacy to just flashy cool glamor and being a hot court jester/musician/dancer. He was a true producer of spaces that allowed people to explore, develop curiosity, and create on a massive scale. He was a humanitarian in a way most people couldn't fathom without suspecting an alterior motive because the norm then moreso than now thought that different in really any kind of way is bad. This is still a thing today, but its much more normalized to push back against that idea now because...
Michael Was There. (along with others, but he I argue got it the most)
He was there before we came.
He took the hurt and the shame.
He beat down walls and won the day.
It wasn't right or fair.
He taught us all and made a lot of us care.
He was there and thanks to him, there's another door for us to walk through.
We are here for all to see, to be the best that we can be.
Yes, I am here, because he was there.
I credit a lot of my resilience and care and willingness to keep myself alive in such a soul-sucking beginning of life because he was my inspiration at such an early age (10yo) when I was already considering leaving the world behind.
I caught his the-world-needs-more-love bug. and I do everything I can to be the person I and he needed and I wish more people would. I won't let my life allow his (and many others') sacrifices to be in vein. I choose to be part of the solution as much as I can every day and hope to see others do the same. <3