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HIS LEGACY

It was June 25th, 2009...a normal day. Wake up, take a shower, get dressed and chill out. The only thing slighly abnormal was a call from my 27 year old sister Heather. Heather was about 4 months pregnant. She was going to be going to the beach, and since she was getting bigger she needed a new swimming suit. Me and my mom headed to her house and picked her up. We headed off to the mall and we stopped at a couple of stores. The only one i remember going in was JCpenny. My sister was trying on swimming suits while me and my mom waited outside the fitting rooms. My 17 year old brother Nick loved to hang out with his friend Skyler so he had called my mom to ask if he could hang out with him. He had something else to say and by the look on my mom's face it was something shocking. She had hung up the phone and i asked her what Nick had said. She told me that Michael Jackson had passed away. Now before this moment i never liked Michael Jackson the person, but i liked his music but i never really listened to it. I knew maybe 2 or 3 of his songs. But at the moment my mom told me that shocking news something inside me clicked. The song Thriller was instantly stuck in my head. I couldn't stop. That weekend on Vh1 there was a Michael Jackson video retrospective. I was now curious about Michael Jackson so i recorded it. Me and my 15 brother Trey were making fun of the videos but inside me something felt weird. I didn't mean the things i said, i thought these videos were pure art. I began repeatedly watching this and finally i was addicted. I began to watch Michael Jackson videos on youtube and i'd search him on the internet. I wanted to know more about him personally instead of his music. I kept the obsession a secret from my family because i didn't want to admit it. On July 7th, 2009 me, my mom, and brother Trey watched the memorial for Michael Jackson. At the time i had been recording all the Michael Jackson things on TV so i recorded this as well. After first watching the memorial the speeches didn't get to me, that was until Marlon and Paris spoke. But after it aired i watched it again and i cried throughout the whole thing. I was beginning to feel as though i knew Michael Jackson. I continued my daily routine of watching Michael Jackson videos on youtube and looking him up on the internet. I did this so much i refused to hang out with my friends Jamie and Brianna. They grew furious at me but i wanted to watch Michael Jackson. On my birthday that summer, August 11th, I had a Michael Jackson cake. I thought i'd let it be known of my obssesion because i was proud. Proud to be a lover and not a hater. My 29 year old sister Shannon said to me, "One yer from now i guarentee you won't love MJ the same", but it has been more than a year and i'm still loving him. In fact i love him more. I still watch Michael Jackson videos on the internet and i search for facts i didn't know before. I wear a Michael Jackson shirt almost everyday and i don't care if people make fun of me. I get teased and made fun of and people make fun of MJ. No one around me understands my love for Michael Jackson except my MJ sister Mary Lynn and my mom. I always have my MJsite family though. It may seem silly or dumb but sometimes at night i'll listen to songs of MJ's like "Gone Too Soon" and "Smiile" or "Speechless" and i'll sit on my bed and look out the window and talk to Michael. I'll tell him about how i love him and i'll always defend him when people talk trash about him. Now as i write this today: August 21st, 2010; i can say to you that i love Michael Jackson. My brother asked me one day, "Why do you call him Mike? That is what his personal friends and his family would call him. And you are neither." I just looked at him and shook my head. Cause inside i feel as though though i am Mike's friend. I feel like i knew him his whole life. In fact, to me he still feels alive. And i believe he is, becuase he will live on through his music, his dancing, his philanthropic deeds, and well HIS LEGACY.

~Halle Elizabeth Connelly~
A devoted MJ fan who only wishes that Mike was still here.
Rest in Peace Michael, we all love you and we always will. <3

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