Sun Rise In Life - MICHAEL JACKSON
Just after thirteen days of
Madonna’s born, one more American star took birth as number eight of ten
children in an African-American working class family, who had two bedrooms
house. The day was 29th August, 1958. At Gary, Indiana, an
industrial city and a part of the Chicago
metropolitan area. His mother, Katherine Esther
Scruse, was a devout Jehovah's Witness.
She once aspired to be a country and western performer who played clarinet and
piano, but worked part-time at Sears to
help support the family. His father, a former boxer, was a steelworker at U.S. Steel.
Joe also performed on guitar with a local R&B band called The Falcons to
supplement the family's household income.
MICHAEL
JOSEPH JACKSON – THE MICHAEL
JACKSON
Michael grew up with three
sisters and five brothers in a two bed-room house, adjusting little income of parents.
His father, Joseph Jackson, had been a guitarist but had put aside his musical
aspirations to provide for his family as a crane operator. Believing his sons
had talent, he moulded them into a musical group. His believing forced Michael
to enter in music World at age of five only. When other children play and go to
primary school, Michael and his brothers had to spend endless hours for
rehearsing and polishing their act. His father was hurting Michael when he was
a child, Joseph often sat in a chair with a belt in his hand as he and his siblings
rehearsed, and if they didn't do it the right way, he would tear them up. His
father regularly whipped Jackson as a boy. Joe had verbally abused his
son, often saying that he had a "fat nose". Michael was physically
and emotionally abused during incessant rehearsals. His childhood was
completely taken away from him. There was no Christmas, there were no
birthdays, it was not a normal childhood, nor the normal pleasures of
childhood. Those were exchanged for hard work, struggle and pain. What a
darkest side of Night; after getting tremendous success in musical World,
Michael had described this session of darkest Night of his life in an interview
with Gold Magazine in 2002 as:-
"When I was little I grew up in an adult World.
I grew up on stage. I grew up in Night clubs. When I was seven, eight years old,
I was in Nightclubs. I saw striptease girls, take off all their clothes. I saw
fights, break out. I saw people, throw up on each other. I saw adults, act like
pigs. That's why to this day, I hate clubs. I don't like going to clubs - I did
that already, I've been there. That's why I compensate now for what I didn't do
then. So when you come to my house, you'll see I have rides, I have a movie
theatre, I have animals. I love animals - elephants and giraffes and lions and
tigers and bears, all kinds of snakes. I get to do all those wonderful things
that I didn't get to do when I was little, because we didn't have those things.
We didn't have Christmas. We didn't have sleepovers. We didn't have school, we
had private school when we were touring. I didn't go to a state school. We
tried it for two weeks and it didn't work. It was very difficult. It's hard
growing up a celebrity child. Very few make that transition from child star to adult
star. It's very difficult. I relate to Shirley Temple. I met her in San
Francisco and I sat at her table and I cried so badly. She said, 'What's wrong
Michael?' I said, 'I love you. I need to be around you more.' She goes, 'You're
one of us, aren't you?' and I said 'Yes, I am.' Somebody else said, 'What do
you mean?' and she said, 'Michael knows what I mean.' And I know exactly what
she meant - to have been there as a child star and to have graduated to have
succeeded in making that transition to fame as an adult is very difficult. When
you're a child star people don't want you to grow up. They want you to stay
little forever. They don't want you to work afterwards. It's very hard."
Night didn’t
stop here or left its effect on his childhood activities only, but take a look
few more sentences in which Michael had described Night’s cruelty in his life.
Look –
"Because I think every child star suffers
through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you
were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever. "
"Yes,
and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at
myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror,
and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried every day."
Because
show business and my career were my life, the biggest personal struggle I had
to face during those teenage years did not involve the recording studios or my
stage performance. In those days, the biggest struggle was right there in my
mirror. To a great degree, my identity as a person was tied to my identity as a
celebrity.
My
appearance began to really change when I was about fourteen. I grew quite a bit
in height. People who didn't know me would come into a room expecting to be
introduced to cute little Michael Jackson and they'd walk right past me. I
would say, "I'm Michael," and they would look doubtful. Michael was a
cute little kid: I was a gangly adolescent heading toward five feet ten inches.
I was not the person they expected or even wanted to see. Adolescence is hard
enough, but imagines having your own natural insecurities about the changes
your body is undergoing heightened by the negative reactions of others. They
seemed so surprised that I could change, that my body was undergoing the same
natural change everyone's does.
It
was tough. Everyone had called me cute for a long time, but along with all the
other changes, my skin broke out in a terrible case of acne. I looked in the
mirror one morning and it was like, "OH NO!" I seemed to have a
pimple for every oil gland. And the more I was bothered by it, the worse it
got. I didn't realise it then, but my diet of greasy processed food didn't help
either.
I
became subconsciously scarred by this experience with my skin. I got very shy
and became embarrassed to meet people because my complexion was so bad. It
really seemed that the more I looked in the mirror, the worse the pimples got.
My appearance began to depress me. So I know that a case of acne can have a
devastating effect on a person. The effect on me was so bad that it messed up
my whole personality. I couldn't look at people when I talked to them. I'd look
down, or away. I felt I didn't have anything to be proud of and I didn't even
want to go out. I didn't do anything.
My
brother Marlon would be covered with pimples and he wouldn't care but I didn't
want to see anybody and I didn't want anyone to see my skin in that shape. It
makes you wonder about what makes us the way we are, that two brothers could be
so different.
I
still had our hits records to be proud of, and once I hit the stage, I didn't
think about anything else. All that worry was gone. But once I came offstage,
there was that mirror to face again”.
Oh; what a life tragedy? In
this kind of worst Night session of life, he didn’t broke, he didn’t commit
suicide, and he didn’t give up but continued with hard working and God given
talent. He and his brothers got succeeded in short time, their fame reach
everywhere, they got wealthy. Michael Jackson make
SUN
RISE
IN
HIS LIFE
Today, even after six years
from June 25, 2009 his death (Physically), Michael doesn’t require any
referential word to give his presence. You can’t imagine the World without this
legend
MICHAEL
JACKSON
If you enter this World
knowing you are loved and you leave this World knowing the same, then
everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
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