One of the concepts I fully believe in is the intimate connection between love and sorrow. That maybe sounds like a cruel creation, kind of like the concept (that I am not sure I agree with) that says that when things are very good, uh oh, soon it will go bad. That is a defeatist way to look at life, robbing you from enjoying the good times. But with the love/sorrow connection, the opposite of love is indifference. If you don't care about something, then there would be no sorrow associated with it, you are still in the neutral nothing state of not caring about whatever it is. In the physical world there are sorrows that are going to happen, but what a gift it is to have love accompany it. You have been able to enjoy the love that was involved, and if sorrow comes, you have the opportunity to feel that love more deeply and you can keep it alive in your heart forever.
We are now halfway through this month of lockdown and people are now starting to go stir-crazy, and justifiably so. When you go shopping for groceries and everybody in the store is wearing a mask, nobody can see your smile, and people's identities are effectively hidden. And somehow this makes everybody silent, as well. And realize that the various workers everywhere you go never see a human smile all day long. People are suffering and fearing all across the board, and at first it was making me love them more, opening up my awareness of the various miseries that others were going through. But now when everyone is publicly hidden behind masks, and we are all fearful of every unidentified person who is nothing more than a potential carrier of contagion, indifference toward others seems to be proliferating, if not outright hate.
But in there to save us is our love, and music can help us continue to feel that love. It definitely helps me a lot, so that is why I transmit it over to you.
So here comes a song that is clearly an expression of the love that flows along with sorrow. It is sung in honor of Ryan White, a boy who decades ago suffered the existence of AIDS that he contracted via a blood transfusion. At that time, AIDS wasn't really understood, but greatly feared, and there was a hew and cry about how he should be banned from going to school, because his mere presence was supposedly extremely dangerous to the other children. We know now that you do not get AIDS from social contact.
Whatever people currently think and believe about Michael Jackson, I will not get deeply into that. I don't actually KNOW any more than most other people actually KNOW. And now he is dead and what we are left with is his music, which is amazingly good. My belief is "By their fruits ye shall know them". Michael Jackson was one of the most generous people giving to charity, and whenever he was traveling around the world giving concerts, on his "spare time", he was going into countless hospitals, visiting the suffering children, giving them gifts, and letting then take pictures with him. But what hits me the most is this song that I am presenting to you today. This one I classify as a video, please watch the visuals, which will increase the impact. What is most telling to me is Michael's final notes to this song. I think he has fully demonstrated here his genuine love instead of a hidden hate. He was a giver, not a taker. Maybe he did bang-up job of acting in this song; since I don't have anywhere near that level of talent, I can't imagine it. But if so, what a waste of a such talent. Why "fake" love? Why not feel it for real? Love is one of the most precious gifts we have ever received. Every person deserves to feel it, and to give it to others. Here with this I wish you all immense love that you truly do deserve. And to the extent that you are suffering, feel the power of the love that can balance it out.
15. Song name: Gone Too Soon (Video)
We are now halfway through this month of lockdown and people are now starting to go stir-crazy, and justifiably so. When you go shopping for groceries and everybody in the store is wearing a mask, nobody can see your smile, and people's identities are effectively hidden. And somehow this makes everybody silent, as well. And realize that the various workers everywhere you go never see a human smile all day long. People are suffering and fearing all across the board, and at first it was making me love them more, opening up my awareness of the various miseries that others were going through. But now when everyone is publicly hidden behind masks, and we are all fearful of every unidentified person who is nothing more than a potential carrier of contagion, indifference toward others seems to be proliferating, if not outright hate.
But in there to save us is our love, and music can help us continue to feel that love. It definitely helps me a lot, so that is why I transmit it over to you.
So here comes a song that is clearly an expression of the love that flows along with sorrow. It is sung in honor of Ryan White, a boy who decades ago suffered the existence of AIDS that he contracted via a blood transfusion. At that time, AIDS wasn't really understood, but greatly feared, and there was a hew and cry about how he should be banned from going to school, because his mere presence was supposedly extremely dangerous to the other children. We know now that you do not get AIDS from social contact.
Whatever people currently think and believe about Michael Jackson, I will not get deeply into that. I don't actually KNOW any more than most other people actually KNOW. And now he is dead and what we are left with is his music, which is amazingly good. My belief is "By their fruits ye shall know them". Michael Jackson was one of the most generous people giving to charity, and whenever he was traveling around the world giving concerts, on his "spare time", he was going into countless hospitals, visiting the suffering children, giving them gifts, and letting then take pictures with him. But what hits me the most is this song that I am presenting to you today. This one I classify as a video, please watch the visuals, which will increase the impact. What is most telling to me is Michael's final notes to this song. I think he has fully demonstrated here his genuine love instead of a hidden hate. He was a giver, not a taker. Maybe he did bang-up job of acting in this song; since I don't have anywhere near that level of talent, I can't imagine it. But if so, what a waste of a such talent. Why "fake" love? Why not feel it for real? Love is one of the most precious gifts we have ever received. Every person deserves to feel it, and to give it to others. Here with this I wish you all immense love that you truly do deserve. And to the extent that you are suffering, feel the power of the love that can balance it out.
15. Song name: Gone Too Soon (Video)
Artist: Michael Jackson
Lyrics by Larry Grossman, Music by Buz Kohan
Produced by Michael Jackson and Bruce Swedien
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