Michael Jackson Is My "Bestie"

Hello All,

You beautiful readers of my blog, by the hundreds of thousands, was going to say a higher number but why be all the way ridiculous. Just wanted to add another posts, reading over my previous posts, they have a vibe of blahhh! They mean something to me being my experiences, a few of my deepest thoughts and all but ya'll don't want to read all that. Not that there's a "ya'll" that will read this either but hey, still want to mix it up a bit.

As I clean the house I need the assistance of music and who better than Michael Jackson. While listening to over 2 hours of Michael Jackson songs, there's currently 168 on my iPod in number but some are repeats because of the greatest hits albums and compilations but it's a nice mix and still there are others I want. So with dancing around sweeping, putting in a load of laundry, dishes, making my children lunch, making a valiant attempt at organizing, I realize something so awesomely cool and heartwarming.

I realized that if given the opportunity, Michael Jackson and I would have been the best of friends. If his music is any indication and I so strongly believe it is, we would have been inseparable. Ok, he probably would not have been able to hang out as much as I would have liked, you know being the King of Pop and one of the top entertainers loved around the world, but we would have kicked it when he had time and possibly I'd done some traveling with him.

No, I'm not high, Lol! I just think that Michael and I are the same in the many ways of his song lyrics, that our love for love, justice, peace, brother and sisters of the planet helping and not harming each other, yes, that "We Are The World" mentality, we're kin in that.

Naive possibly but my "bestie" Michael Jackson and I would have relished in that naivety together, all the while being the change we wanted to see. Michael Jackson was that change and I still strive to be, well need to put more action behind my intentions to be but we know what's said about intentions right...I need to get it together, but anywho...

What's your favorite Michael Jackson song? I know, what a question, who can pick only one as a favorite. I know I have my top five, top ten, top 50 but an absolute favorite, see even when I was going to say "Keep the Faith" but then "Man in the Mirror" and "The Lost Children" come to mind. Then "Gone Too Soon", "Will You Be There", "Rock My World", "With a Child's Heart", "Music and Me", "Fall Again", "Smile", "Can You Feel It" and truly about 50 others so never mind favorite, I'll take your top five, good luck with narrowing that down :-).

Michael Jackson and I also love to dance, did you know there's a clip on Youtube of Michael tap dancing with the Nicholas Brothers (Fayard & Harold Nicholas), I love tap, have for so many years, that's another blog entry in itself, especially since it was basically the entire 90's decade that I was just obsessed, with tap and with Savion Glover but I'll spill on that another time.

I miss you Michael, like we were the closest of "besties". I appreciate you for your contribution to the world that will be forever felt, benefited from and enjoyed. I didn't always understand or agree with how you lived your life, the decisions you made therein but you lived your life and encouraged others to live their best lives as well, with songs like, "Off the Wall", "On The Line", "Keep the Faith", "History", "Black or White", "Earth Song", "Heal The World", "Cry", and just so many others. I want so much to give you the biggest hug when I listen to your songs, "Stranger In Moscow", "Scared of the Moon", "Someone Put Your Hand Out", and one that still stops me in my tracks as I absorb your words, "Childhood".

It's known, by those who know me, and now you all, that I am the biggest sucker for love. I love LOVE, the feeling of it, the experience of it and will easily geek out and cry from happiness of seeing others heart deep in it and actions display it. Some of Michael's songs that take me there for those moments are, "Just A Little Bit of You...", "Butterflies", "Fall Again", "Speechless", "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Someone In The Dark", "Got to be There", "Wanna Be Where You Are", "You Are My Life", "I'll Be There" and I don't the like any speak of blasphemy but I'll say that "Heaven Can Wait" has that "true love" element as well.

Now I appreciate too that Michael Jackson could get raw with it, he told it as it was with gems like, "They Don't Really Care About Us", "Ghosts" and "We've Had Enough". He also let it be known that he had haters, with "Unbreakable", "Why You Wanna Trip on Me", "Jam", "Privacy", "In the Back" and "Is It Scary". Michael had a few songs where he came at the ladies too with, "Who Is It", "Dirty Diana", "Blood on the Dance Floor, "Billie Jean", truly his body of work truly ran the scale.

I love you Michael Jackson and am so glad to have been born when I was so that I can be one of those who can say, I remember when...your new album was to be released and it was an event to see your new videos. When after "A Diffr'ent World" the premier of the "Remember The Time" video had people glued to their televisions then watching it on replay on the music video channels. I remember when "Scream" premiered, well not the actual date without cheating with Google, but I do remember it was another moment in time that was the topic of conversation for days after for many reasons. "Smooth Criminal" and "Thriller", a history making endeavor, were the two of the greatest music videos, short movies, every made I think, just amazing. They were bad, as you were "Bad", yet another of the great ones.

So, Michael, my "bestie" Thank God for you, for your parents for making you, which again is God's doing. I truly am thankful to have been alive to see you grow in your career and to have you apart of my life thru your music. Your music continues to guide me, encourage me and still serves as an example of perseverance and how one should feel a connection to the whole of mankind and be about the business of making us, as that whole, a bit better in even just "Our Small Way".

Even if just a smile, please give the gift of kindness to a stranger everyday! I'll start :-D