Youth People A Double Standard 35282
As a boy I danced and s-hook to the music of Elvis Presley along with the remaining portion of the kids in my generation. For a second viewpoint, we know people check out: US Drug Overdose Deaths Drop for First Time Since 1990. I was surprised to listen to how he died from the usage of drugs but even though I heard of his death I still was not able to gather the significance of it. Ive had years to ponder the significance of it and I'm sure it doesnt are categorized as the heading of great experiences from my childhood. It is less confusing than it was when I first heard about it but I am way too old now to just pass it off with an one-word cover all like, tragedy.
It is far worse than loss, it is an experience that if not carefully examined and assessed would slip by without anyone seeing that it is a dangerous double standard that our childhood seldom ever see until they are dangerously near saying it inside their own lives.
No one could argue that Jimmy Hendrix was a cutting-edge rock and roll artist but h-e died from a drug over-dose. No one would say they didnt believe Janis Joplin did a bang up job with songs like Bobby McGee but shes another drug overdose victim. David Belushi made all of us laugh but he joined the ranks of the dead by drugs in his prime.
Enter the suicides like Curt Cobain, Freddy Prinze, and the list continues. It isnt the lives, the advantages or the careers of these people that falls in to question; perhaps it is not really how they died that is the largest double standard. What we are saying about these people following their deaths could be the real issue.
To continually make reference to the skills, the life styles or the popularity of the people without regard to the situation of how they met their end is just a dangerous error. It is an easy method of saying that death from suicide or drug overdose complements the place. Media extols and exemplifies their lives for the media cause, not for the youth who purvey the pop-culture seeking role-models and icons. Oftentimes it's difficult enough to explain the lives they lived much less their deaths.
Showing kids fried eggs and comparing that for their brains on drugs will have little effect if we continue to glorify the lives of those who fried their own brains to the level of death. If we keep giving our youth the business of their lives how wont in addition they be provided by the method of their deaths?
I still have fond remembrances of days when I danced to the music of the King. Im now glad to say I have decided to dance to the track of a new King. This King never took drugs, didnt commit suicide and beat death rather than using it to cop out. His death produces life for others; in reality there is no life without him.
Jesus could have lived the lowly existence of a suffering Messiah but the Bible says he will return as the omnipotent ruling King of Kings and Lords of Lords. Discovery 19:16.
