I’ve never related more to the phrase “I don’t have anyone to talk to about this,” and I’ve definitely never felt this way about a single celebrity…especially at 34.
Let me preface this by saying I haven’t even watched the biopic. But with the recent surge of content about Michael Jackson, something in me reconnected with his legacy in a way I didn’t expect.
And when I say I feel this overwhelming mix of sadness and… almost helplessness…it’s intense. It catches me off guard in the middle of completely normal, everyday moments. I’ll just be going about my day and suddenly feel my eyes well up. It’s like this emotional weight I can’t shake, this energy that lingers no matter what I do.
I’m fully aware of how unusual this sounds. It’s not like I knew him personally or grew up in his era..I was a 2000s kid, when he was mostly ridiculed and misunderstood in the media. So I genuinely don’t know where this is coming from.
It just all feels so unexpected… like this quiet, heavy void that I can’t quite explain.
Has anyone else been feeling this? And how are you coping?
For me, I’ve been coping by just immersing myself in his art, the music, the lyrics, the performances, and trying to look past the surface to understand what he was really expressing. With MJ, it feels like there was always something deeper woven into what he created. At the end of the day, it’s the art and creativity he loved sharing with people, so that’s where I’ve been grounding myself.