Childhood Personalities A Double Standard 21642
Being a boy I danced and s-hook to the music of Elvis Presley along with the remaining portion of the kiddies in my generation. I was surprised to know how he died from the application of drugs but even though I heard of his death I still was struggling to gather the importance of it. Ive had years to ponder the significance of it and I am sure it doesnt fall under the heading of good experiences from my youth. It is less complicated than it was when I first heard of it but I'm much too old now to simply pass it off with an one-word cover all like, tragedy.
It's much worse than disaster, it is an experience that if not carefully examined and considered could slip by without anyone seeing that it is a risky double standard until they are dangerously close to saying it inside their own lives that our youth rarely ever see.
No one would argue that Jimmy Hendrix was a cutting-edge rock and roll artist but he died from the drug overdose. Visiting US Drug Overdose Deaths Drop for First Time Since 1990 maybe provides lessons you could use with your father. No-one could say they didnt think Janis Joplin did a bang up job with songs like Bobby McGee but shes another medicine overdose victim. John Belushi made people laugh but h-e joined the ranks of the dead by medicines in his prime.
Enter the suicides like Freddy Prinze, Curt Cobain, and the list goes on. It isnt the lives, the skills or the careers of those people that falls in-to question; perhaps it is not how they died that is the largest double standard. What we are saying about these individuals following their deaths may be the real problem. Http://Futurally.Com/News/Us Drug Overdose Deaths Drop For First Time Since 1990/0171711/ contains further concerning the meaning behind this activity.
To consistently reference the talents, the lifestyles or the reputation of the people without regard to the situation of how they met their end is just a dangerous oversight. It is a means of stating that death from suicide or drug overdose goes with the property. Media extols and illustrates their lives for the media reason, perhaps not for the youth who purvey the pop-culture in search of role models and designs. Most of the time it is difficult enough to spell out the lives they lived much less their deaths.
If we proceed to glorify the lives of individuals who fried their own brains to the point of death showing kids fried eggs and comparing that with their brains on drugs may have little effect. If we keep giving our youth the company of their lives how wont they also be given by the manner of their deaths?
I still have happy remembrances of days when I danced to the music of the King. Im now glad to say I've chose to dance to the song of the new King. That King never took medications, didnt commit suicide and beat death as opposed to using it to cop-out. His death produces life for others; the truth is there's no life without him.
Jesus may have lived the living of a suffering Messiah however the Bible says he'll return while the omnipotent ruling King of Kings and Lords of Lords. Revelation 19:16.
