Mrs Worthington's lament

A few thoughts on fame, following the death of Michael Jackson. John Donne said. "Each man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind." Whatever your opinion of Jackson, a man has died and there are people mourning him. But, having read the retrospectives in the newspapers and watched the tributes on television, I find myself mourning his life. To take a child and take that child's innate gifts, and to mould that child into something that is a child no longer, is to condemn the adult that child becomes. What Michael Jackson became is a consequence of what happened to the child that he once was. Please, if you have children, let them find themselves before you try to push them into becoming what you want them to be.