Amy Winehouse

Still saddened, is it strange? I am sick of hearing people say what's happening in Norway or wherever is more important. Sorry... Did Norway touch as many lives? Maybe, I don't know. Who can place value of one death over another? The world losing a talent like Amy seems important to me. Someone blessed with such a gift and gone too soon is always a big deal to me. It's not just Amy's passing, it's the disease itself: Addiction / Depression. Whatever it was that led to this point. For Jimi for Kurt for Janis for everyone who died too soon. I don't want to watch any more talents go like this. Or maybe it's 'cause I too am 27 years old.

Amy was probably one of the best talents to come out of this generation. I was so hoping for her to get well and make a huge come back and give the biggest F@*k You to everyone for beating her while she was down. But sadly that will never be. It's sad that despite all her talent all the focus was on her downfall. I can't handle losing all these talents to this disease.

Perhaps what happened in Norway was a once off incident, I'm not insensitive to it, it was tragic indeed, but this disease is taking too many greats. And I know Amy won't be the last. Perhaps that is why it bothers me as much as it does. Addiction and depression are taking too many lives. Greats and non greats. It's taking too many lives in general.

People tend to blame the addicts instead of the disease. Amy and others slipped through the cracks, and I don't want to let any one else fall as well. There is help out there, I know this. It is avoidable. They can be saved. I may be powerless to change Amy's fate, but I can only hope that none will follow. It's a dream, but I dream nonetheless.

RIP Amy Winehouse, Legend, gone too soon

-Me <3