There's a place in your heart
And I know that it is love
And this place
could be much brighter than tomorrow
And if you really try
You'll find there's no need to cry
In this place
You'll feel there's no hurt or sorrow
There are, ways to get there
If you care enough for the living
Make a little space
Make a better place
.
Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me
And the entire human race
There are, people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make it a better place
For you and for me
Heal the world by Michael Jackson.
The smooth sound of Michael Jackson's voice as he sung this song reminds me of his other song, Will you be there.
For all the noise that was made about his private life, Michael was a genius. And that genius came from hard work. For it's true, nobody is born with all advantages, and everyone can aspire to become more than they are.
As the Spanish violinist, Pablo Sarasate, said "A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!". Or in Michaelangelo's, words, "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
But I wonder if the genius would have come out if his father, Joe Jackson, hadn't pushed them so hard. A part of me wants to think that the discipline that Joe enforced on his boys would have emerged all by itself. But I doubt it. What about Janet Jackson? She didn't go through that same hardship? But she had established role models inside her home to look up to and to learn from. Just like Whitney.
It's truly incredible what Michael Jackson accomplished in his life, which ended when he was 50 years old. Same age as I am as I write this today. And I'm amazed at how influential and full a life he lived. Though he had his challenges, which I don't see as challenges. Still they were challenges.
Like Amy Winehouse, or Whitney Houston, or Macaulay Culkin, or Brigitte Nielsen. Being a celebrity definitely has it's challenges. Life in general has it's challenges.
When Michael Jackson first walked onto the world stage, on the Ed Sullivan Show, the world fell in love. If you watch footage of that show, you can see that Michael was having a lot of fun. The road to stardom was amazing. The journey was good.
And then he achieved greatness, and it seems that the journey had come to an end. Apparently no challenge. Nothing to aspire to. Music wasn't hard. Whatever he thought, he could do.
And that's what happens when the challenge stops being a challenge. And the question therefore is how do you keep the challenge in life, even when you no longer need the money. When money isn't an issue.
Michael didn't find the answer. Neither did Todd Bridges. Actually, all of the kids of Different Strokes had issues related to success.
It's up to us to keep ourselves alive. It's up to us to ensure that success isn't measured by reaching a pinnacle. That success is measured by the journey, and the walk. It isn't about getting there. But it's all about the moving forward and always looking.
To Michael Jackson, and the Jackson Five, I say; well done, congratulations, but I hoped that you would have stayed a little longer.
Like Amy Winehouse, or Whitney Houston, or Macaulay Culkin, or Brigitte Nielsen. Being a celebrity definitely has it's challenges. Life in general has it's challenges.
When Michael Jackson first walked onto the world stage, on the Ed Sullivan Show, the world fell in love. If you watch footage of that show, you can see that Michael was having a lot of fun. The road to stardom was amazing. The journey was good.
And that's what happens when the challenge stops being a challenge. And the question therefore is how do you keep the challenge in life, even when you no longer need the money. When money isn't an issue.
Michael didn't find the answer. Neither did Todd Bridges. Actually, all of the kids of Different Strokes had issues related to success.
It's up to us to keep ourselves alive. It's up to us to ensure that success isn't measured by reaching a pinnacle. That success is measured by the journey, and the walk. It isn't about getting there. But it's all about the moving forward and always looking.
To Michael Jackson, and the Jackson Five, I say; well done, congratulations, but I hoped that you would have stayed a little longer.
