Sometime we see extremely talented and gifted people are bogged down with trivial issues that to our mind is just part and parcel of life. Six years ago when the pop singer Leslie Cheung ended his life by jumping down from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, I was pondering how come such a gifted singer and actor with richness beyond our imagination simply could not free himself from self inflicted deadlock and surrendered his life so easily. Leslie was told to have suffered from clinical depression for many years before committing suicide. To him, living a normal live could simply be something that is beyond reach just like how we are dreaming to be in his stardom and successes.
This morning we were shocked by the news of the death of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. Farrah, just like her staunch character in the Charlie Angels, brave and resilient to fight life threatening cancer since 2006. On the other hand, Michael who became freakish when he underwent countless plastic surgeries to make his face look like Elizabeth Taylor and also tried to be a white man instead. I really don’t know how all these surgeries and operations were depleting his life, or whether worth it to undertake such dangerous surgeries just to be a fair bit whiter? I’m not trying to be disrespectful to Michael whom I grown up well entertained by his exciting songs and performances. He sang the song Black or White, but was instead trying to defy all odds to become white. Black or White does really matter to him I guess.
Somehow god gives talents to some people to make them extremely successful but forget to give them strength to appreciate a normal live.
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