I dont post much, but today when I first heard of the news of his passing, there was a sadness I felt that Im not and I believe any of us are never comfortable admitting to feeling when someone we dont know passes away. First of all I tried to think of a way to understand how this amazing human being, who I first only knew as a singing genie, rationalized such a devastating way to end his life. Then I thought back to the 10th grade and remembered the first time I watched The Dead Poets Society in English class. It opened my eyes to a whole world outside of high school that felt the same disillusionment and detachment from the regular answers we all mostly received growing up. I Remember that Robin Williams performance stunned me. There he was, this hilarious well known actor who we all assume to have it all figured out, being so passionate about these many unanswered or unexamined ideas. He even believed in a few of the answers the movie gave it seemed. Then in Good Will Hunting I thought him to be a similar character, giving guidance to a genius who ran from his life. It seemed to me that his greatest abilities in so many of his films led us towards life, dared us to think and they dared us to live. The word is so far that he killed himself. So one wonders, does that mean that there is a fault somehow in what he gave to us, is there a fault in whatever a person gives us who wound up ending their own life? Also there will forever be that person after a suicide who wants to say how selfish this person is. I believe it is that people often times get the act of living and the way in which one dies confused. The whole message of a book is not in its final period. We all die, we should know that by now, and some people as we are told, do not really live. Williams certainly lived in the face of all of those unanswered questions in our existence for a very good 63 years and dared us to live in spite of them and made us smile along the way. I believe almost fully that he would still dare us to do the same. Life ends, and it is not always the case that the end summarizes it. Robin Williams I see to be a man who was blessed with many gifts that he gave to the world to show them a way to live among each other. Perhaps it is that we should do the same. - R.I.P Bicentennial Man.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 06:48:47 +0000
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