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The MASK that could not be removed
My eight year old son decided he wanted to be something scary this Halloween,instead of being something cute like I wanted all the Halloweens past so we decided on the Devil of rock (scariest thing I could think of ) we got the scariest devil mask with horns that lit up and glowed red ..and we put his guitar hero guitar over his shoulder and he was the cutest lil devil
well I thought so..but then doesn't every mother think her child is cute?
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we just took our time going house to house in our neighborhood to say hi to neighbors we knew and enjoy the costumes and every one being out on the streets at the same time. He got a lot of comments on his costume mainly the men thought it was BAD as in COOL . This mask looked real enough it made all the younger children cry and run just to look at it . At first my son really got a kick out of all this attention it made him feel like a big shot when the dad's would say scary ! This was new to him being this scary creature,the one that people singled out as different ,hideous . ... My son was used to the opposite reaction from people ,especially the neighbor hood girls who would always flirt and try to impress him
These same girls now
hid behind their mom's or cried ..one preschoolers at the door with mom ,even refuse to give him candy ,she said "NO! mommie NO! "
As she peeked out from behind the safety of her mom
Don't give HIM no candy !!.
At first, HE was amazed at how much HIs appearance and the part he was "PLAYING " affected others .BUT the excitement was very short lived and soon wore off and he said to me .."mom, this is no fun at all, i wanna take this mask off and go walk with the others .all of my friends don't even know who I am underneath this mask .It's more fun being with them , here hold my mask ..I wanna go be with them .
SO i took the grotesque MASK and the bright glowing lights off of my sons beautiful little head and he Happily ran along in front of me to join the rest of the children as just a regular guitar hero ...All of this
really started to make me think of how it must feel to be an outsider
Earlier that day we had gone to a movie see "this is it "Michael" Jackson last rehearsal footage ..
As i walked a few steps behind ,observing I couldn't help but think how awful it must have been ,for Michael especially those last years but mostly ,i thought about his mother Katherine , I could almost feel her pain, as a mother , to be unable to remove her sons mask from his beautiful face and have the whole world see the beauty within and just let him be one of the boys no matter how much she wanted that for him ..
Most people world wide already had their minds made up about him ...
Be it some sort of powerful DEVIL that could do anything and get away with it or Some Kind of Musical GOD that should be worshipped. It really makes no difference ..both of these perceptions of him couldn't have felt like any thing to Michael but Lonely ..No matter how much pain it caused him ,Once he put the mask of super stardom on and accept the role ,for Michael, there was no going back to being just one of the boys !
This was one mask that could not be removed until the curtains came down ,and even now we are doing our best to remember and keep the cameras rolling and the spot light on. wishing for more ..RIP michael ..s
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