Won'tDieInFame.

Okay, this blog post is basically going to be me ranting so feel free to read or ignore. It won't hurt my feelings either way.


Whitney Houston just died. She was a wonderful vocal artist and made many wonderful songs during her life. But I want to focus on is the fact that people are  only raving about her right now because she died. Most of these "fans" weren't true followers or fans until the day she died. Why on Earth should be held to such a high position and given such much praise after doing so much COCAINE! Soldiers die everyday, children die everyday, other people die everyday from circumstances in which they had no responsibility or control over. They didn't do crack, they lived lives in which they were content with and yet we don't praise them. Many great minds and thinkers have died and yet the praise that Whitney has received is much greater than anyone of them will ever receive. Same goes for Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse. I realize these were great artists and they had many wonderful contributions that they gave to the music industry, but why do we let our children see that even if you do crack, you will be famous if you die. Not that if you die fighting for our country and saving all the crack heads from a life of dictatorship, will you receive recognition in great magnitude. It blows my mind. What kind of message are we sending to the future of our world and society? Who do we want our children to look to as role models? Why are the celebrities using so many drugs, consuming so much alcohol, committing so many crimes, abusing so many people? When did this become acceptable? Why are we letting this be the standard we set for our children?? You can hound me and rag on me for disrespecting great legends of my time, but I don't want to have these "legends" be the people who define me. 


If I don't die with fame because I refused to do drugs, drink, abuse my spouse or children, cheat on my spouse, or commit a crime, then SO BE IT. These will not be the people who I remember as I grow older and they will not be the people I look up to. The people I look up to will be the soldiers that die for my freedom when they could have stayed at home and ate bonbons all day. I will look up to the great minds and thinkers who have contributed to society in ways that will help us move forward in the future. I will not let the stress and pressures of society lead me down a road that is dark, bleak, and full of temptation. I plan to die a teacher. A wife. A mother. A person who cares for everybody no matter what and a person that somebody somewhere can look up to. No matter if it is my own child, my students, a stranger, anybody. I want to be a positive influence on somebody's life. I don't want them to think that in order to make an impact on the world that one must do drugs or commit crimes. Because that shouldn't have to be our society's standard of a role model. So I want you to think to yourself. Who will you be?


I said it before and I will say it again, Whitney Houston was a marvelous vocal performer and her talents are something I would let my children aspire to have, but I don't want my children (or anybody at that) to think that drugs are the only way to get somewhere good or to have good talents. There are so many people in this world that do not do drugs and that stay on a path in which is honorable, I want my children to look up to them. I'm not saying that these people don't make mistakes, or that I do not make mistakes. But it is not the mistakes that matter, it is how you fix them and how you cope with them. Do you listen to the ones around you who are trying to help or do you continue on your same path thinking you know what's best. Just take some time to think. Who will you be a role model to? Will you be a positive or negative influence in somebody's life?