Like Blackshama, I’m still shocked at the news that the King of Pop just left us. A few days ago, I was reading a blog entry about his planned comeback in July and now, he’s gone. I’ve been watching CNN and BBC and I’m so overwhelmed by the sudden outpouring of grief from all over the world. Despite what some people say about him, these people can’t deny that Michael redefined the entire music industry and that his music touched so many lives. And one of them is mine. Yet, I’m not even forty something.
Thinking aloud, the old generation is slowly fading away. Here, in the Philippines, young leaders are making themselves felt in the public sphere. Kiko, Chiz, Mar and even Loren are the frontrunners in this. While in fashion and lifestyle, the likes of Rajo Laurel, Tim Yap, Celine Lopez and the rest. As we usher these new, young blood in, what becomes of the old ones?
I’m talking about legacies. What kind of legacy will Enrile be best remembered? Or, say, Manny Villar? Or Joker Arroyo? Or those 190 or so Congressmen who signed House Resolution 1109? How about those petty government officials who amassed tremendous wealth during these dark ages? What kind of legacy will they be known for?
That said, I also thought of Mrs. Arroyo. She’s pushing 65 years old and by the time she do decide to run again as Congressman of Pampanga, she’ll be pushing for 70 years old. In all certainty, she only has, what, about 10 years left? How will we remember her?
Men only live once and the average life span is about 70.8 (for Filipinos). For Madame Gloria, whom I once pushed to Malacanang and now wants to push out from it, I ask this question–how would you like people to remember you?
Lately, legacy has been such a brutal and most abused English word, thanks to Celso delos Angeles and his group. Will Mrs. Arroyo and her ilk do a Celso and greatly abuse us more, all in the name of gold?
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My God, ngayon ko lang nalaman. Bloomberg apparently wasn’t reporting this and I missed TMZ this afternoon and had no Internet because Globe messed up.
I grew up with Michael Jackson Music. He is a musical genius who
redefined the Music Industry. He removed the racial barriers
in the art of music. He will be remembered fondly, not of his
child molestation cases, but to remind us that: if you believe in
yourself, anything is possible in this world.
He was born in a small town in Gary, Indiana, U.S.A.. One of the seven children of a Crane Operator in a Steel Mill.