SO another rock star passed away.
Prince. We crowd our Wall with his music, images, and the good things
that he was and he did. Each time a person that we so admire dies, we
mourn like he/she's our next of kin, a close friend... Yet whenever
this happens, a flipside of our humanity comes to the surface. One
that is flawed yet human. We cuss and berate and lambast people who
are not our idols like they are the darkest of knights, the coldest
of nights. These people who happen to believe in a different faith,
contrary politics, or even the way they live their life—we call
them idiots, morons, dumb, douchebags etc etcetera.
What
if we say Prince the man, Prince Rogers Nelson, is actually a
Jehovah's Witnesses devotee? Those dudes on white shirts and black
ties that we usually eye with disdain as they approach our front
porch with a Colgate smile on a weekend? Or do you know that Bono,
the U2 frontman whose politics you may agree with, is a believer of
Jesus Christ—and actually travels as an evangelical activist? Or
how about Denzel Washington, the coolest dude, right? He doesn't
approve of same sex marriage—and in fact hopes to be a preacher one
day. We are nice to them because they are celebrities, larger than
life—or maybe a notch different from the Baptist preacher that we
always blame for all the bigotry in the world?
People
believe, people follow. People are different from us. There is a
Universal Good and Evil. We know what is good and we know what is
bad. So let us be kind and nice to one another—despite our
differences. We are all trying to be good and be cool and co-exist
under positive circumstances and peaceful wavelength.
So
as we end another day, as another cool human being passes away, let
us take it easy and look within than without. Let us get off the
frame of our personal prejudices and see only the good in the human
heart. Anyone doesn't have to be a David Bowie or a Prince to deserve
a little understanding and respect for what they are.
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