When I heard news that Michael Jackson has passed away, I stopped my tracks and took a double take at the TV screen which was reporting it.

Michael Jackson aka Wacko Jacko (for his eccentric ways including bleaching himself white and touching little children in his fairyland-inspired house) died?!!

Whoa. So now he is gone. Do you think he can be a legend? After all, he popularised the moonwalk, garnered so many die-hard fans/copycats and sang the very touching song, "Heal The World".

Probably his death is for good.
People are kinder to dead people, for some strange reason, and I think his skeletons will be stashed quietly in the closet during his funeral wake.

Let's not remember the times when he was sued in court for his paedophilic actions or when his crooked nose began to disintegrate before our eyes.

I prefer to remember a person with good memories.

Then again, I think I will forget about him 5 days later.
He is not Mother Theresa.

True legends are those who personally change someone's life with his/her lives, just like Mother Theresa.