11
Dec
2010
Michael, the Individual
Thank you Michael, for being an individual. This article isn't really about Michael, but it is about CCC, and as a matter of fact, I'm not even going to write most of it. I'm just going to quote another article that I read that says it better.
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"So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." W. Shakespeare
"----->His intelligence is instinctual and emotional, like a child’s. If any artist loses that childlikeness, you lose a lot of creative juice. So Michael creates around himself a world that protects his creativity”. ~ Jane Fonda
This is so true... It hit every mark right on the dot!!!
Hey Chris!
I'm glad you agree
But you know what? I'd still think you're crazy cool, even if we didn't agree
Hi! This is my first comment on this website! Never really get a chance 2 comment on anything nowadayz becuz of high school! I totally love this becuz its true! I'm a freshman (probably the youngest person on here but I'm mature lol) and I hav 2 deal with cliques everyday!!! Now I go 2 a very ghetto skool in dallas and itz seperated very distictively! There's the murphy kids (some say I'm apart of but I don't believe becuz I'm broke) who r the rich snobby kids ...then there's the bowmans were most of all tha bad kids and stoners come from and same for clark. And other than them u hav tha black group! All the black kids together but travel in small packs and there's the mexicans who alwayz know each other! Of course the weird kids and smart kids and then there's me. I lyk 2 travel....I'm friends wit that smart ppl becuz they help me with everythin and then the weird ones when I need a gud wtf moment and then tha jocks wen I wanna tlk sports and laugh and the cheerleaders/drill team girls when I wanna do hair or makeup wen lazy and the stoners....well you know lol jk but this article is so me... I don't do nuthin that ain't me... I do me!...no one else!
Hey Jamma! Welcome! I'm glad you love it!
Your comment reminds me of a scene in Clueless -- I don't know if you're ever seen that movie but it's my favorite. Anyway she's walking through the courtyard of her high school and pointing out all the cliques. Of course she has her own clique, the rich one, but she IS clueless
In that movie they try to make Brittney Murphy, the new girl into one of them but she decides by the end of the movie that she's okay the way she is. So I'm glad to hear you say that you do you and no one else, especially at the age you are! Go on w/ your bad self! :kissing:
Cause girl, you're gonna find all through life people are going to be trying to recruit you into their "group"!!! It really never stops.
It would be one thing if they sent you an invitation, like they do in college for fraternities. But it doesn't even work like that. It works like this:
We lovvvvve you when you agree with us, and as soon as you have an independent thought well all of a sudden we try and treat you like there's something really wrong with you cause you don't think like "us" (that's to try to shame you into getting back to thinking right) or we punish you by ostracizing you; rolling our eyes at you in the hallway, not sitting w/ you at lunch; not speaking to you anymore when we used to be all up in your face before. And of course it feels yucky to be on the receiving end of that crap, because it's really negative and passive/aggressive.
People will tell you, no, I'm not in a clique those are just my friends but if they do what I just said above, you better believe they've got that clique mentality.
So I applaud you getting it at such an early age. I love how you already know you what you can get from all different kinds of people!!! You can learn a lot from people from all different walks of life, especially the ones that you don't agree with. Now I sound like I'm preaching but it's really really true.
Look at Michael! He was the ultimate individual. The world did their best to tell him who he was and he shouted back, I know who I am damn it! They tried to ostracize him, calling him a freak and every thing they could think of. The Jehovah Witness did it when he wouldn't dance the way they wanted him to. Then the world did it, when he didn't act like the way they thought was "appropriate". They tried to make him "weird" 'cause he didn't fit in with the norm, and he just kept on being himself no matter what.
And in the end he got to experience what all true individuals have already figured out, when you are true to yourself, then people will follow YOU!!!
That's how Michael created trends and styles and new genres where none existed all of his life, by being true to himself.
Hi Sabine! You know I agree w/ this article 100%. That follower you "lost" . . . . . . looks like someone got caught being a hypocrite redhanded and couldn't deal with being called on it. good riddens. If i'm right I think you've got five or six more followers since sso no loss on your part. My advice: you're not being paid for this. you are doing this out of love and if someone is pretending to be loving towards you when that is not in their heart then they are not your friend and have no place here. let them go somewhere else.
Hey Nuje again.
Why are you up so late -- it's 1:05 a.m. here!!! Now why am I not surprised that you like this article? 
I read and answered you on the other thread so I won't talk more about the "lost" follower but you're not getting any disagreements from me.
It's true, I am sharing out of love, and I think you're right that someone who is pretending to be loving towards me/this place has no place here. You're absolutely right about that.
I never understood why people pretend anyway. oh, by the way, we do need a smh smiley, and a shrugs smiley too!!!
Hahaha thankz! I do wat I do lol
but I do get judged 4 it..it sukz...lyk 2 the black group I'm not "black enough" and I'm black! I dress different and tlk different doesn't mean I'm tryin 2 b someone else! They make fun of wat I wear but I kno they r jus jealous of me but idk y! 
jus becuz my bestfriend is white they think I dnt lyk hangin wit them..she's actz real black though but still I ignore it but ppl admire me for bein different! I get voted best dress and most talented wen it comes 2 my art work and apparently I'm a comedian and get told that I make pplz day better wen they c me 
I admire michael for that 2 he's different jus lyk myself he dressed and tlkd different which makez us unique 2 weird 2 others but as I said b4 we jus do us lol
Sounds to me like they're just insecure -- which is normal I guess when you're young, even normal for adults. We all have insecurities.
The messed up part is when you go around projecting that crap onto other people and telling them who they should be friends with, how they should dress, or wear their hair, how they should talk or what they should think, and people who are insecure sometimes do that crap.
And like I was saying, they don't say it by saying it. They don't say, You should talk different; you shouldn't think like that. They say, Ewwwwww, why do you talk LIKE THAT? Is THAT what you think? OMG! LIke you're an alien or something, instead of trying to understand where you're coming from.
Same difference.
Well, there you go, you're being admired for the guts to be different!!!! So you're an artist -- artists are way cool in my book!!!!!
Haha yea I do a lot of drawingz and paintingz...I did one of mj and it came out awesome..he's usually my inspiration wen I draw... I won't show something unless I lyk it no one else so wen tha teacher asks me to add somethin and I kno I lyk it the way it is...I won't do it lol its my work I made it so I kno how it goes not u! I definaley think lyk him in that field and chewin gum 24/7 haha
OOoo, I wanna see it. I love drawings and paintings of Michael. My son is in art school and has the same problem, he doesn't want to draw on command and won' show something if he doesn't feel comfortable. As a writer I feel him. I don't like no one messing with my stuff either!!!
But sometimes it's good to let the ones with more experience give you advice, you can learn a lot, but you don't have to like it
My computerz messed up ugh!
but if I cud I wud but it won't let me send pictures... so weird... but I do listen it jus as soon I see a great picture and stop.. of course jus lyk mike I'm never realllyy satisfide...but I think itz good enough but nothin can be that visible that random ppl can point of mistakes... jus how I am wen I draw! Plus my art teacher is goes crazy bcuz of us! No one except a few kidz and me actually listen to a word she says! They break everything she buys for tha room and never do the work and it makes me luk lyk a teachers pet and an overacheiver which I don't believe I am but I love art! Another hater bringer rite there!...
Sounds liked you're very passionate about art! That's what matters, not what anyone else thinks. As long as your creative expression brings you pleasure and it's coming from a real and solid place that's all that matters. I think a good teacher can spot the ones who are serious and the ones who are just foolin' around.
Great article!! Lately I've been thinking about and reconsindering my friendships quite a lot and those questions at the end are really helpful so thanks!!
I'm glad you liked it Cherry!!!!
I think those are important questions to ask ourselves from time to time, no matter how old we are, especially if we're making friends on line!!!!!!