The man i love

by Samantha Koller
(Las Cruces,NM United States)

Michael Jackson died almost a year ago and i have cried everyday since. I still remember that exact day.

i was laying down looking for something to watch on the television when all of a sudden i saw a large print on the news stating that Michael Jackson is in the hospital due to suffering from cardiac arrest.

i couldnt believe it! So i picked up the phone to call my dad. i said "Dad, whats going on with Michael Jackson? Please tell me he will be ok!" he told me "What are you talking about?" apparently he wasn't watching the news.

so i told him to turn on the news and he did. The first thing he said was "Holy crap, how long have you been watching this?" I told him that i just flipped to the channel and saw what had happened.

by this time i was crying because i was scared and shocked i just didn't know what to do. my dad told me to calm down and just watch and see what happens and it was about 2:10 p.m. when we hung up.

i got up to go see what my brother and his friend where doing and i told them what was going on.

after i got back out to the living room the heading on the news had said "Michael Jackson is now pernounced DEAD" i couldnt believe it at all.

so i flipped the channel to all on the news channels hoping that they were just being idiots and heard it wrong. but no luck, all of the news channels where talking about him so i started balling my eyes out.

i was so sad. I love him so so much and i still to this day can't believe he is gone. when school started again i had a binder with his picture on all sides of it and i have the quote by him "If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave the world knowing the same, then everything in between can be dealt with"

i kept that on my binder to remind me that even though he left and made alot af people hurt, like me, i can deal with it he will always be with me and hopefully i will encounter him again sometime.

but back to the school topic, before i had that quote i used to go to the mall with my friend and if i hear someone say something bad about Michael Jackson i say to them "You know what you need to shut up!

You are just talking crap about him because you dont know crap about him. Yeah he made alot of mistakes in his life but so have you.

How would you like it if everyone was talking crap about you because you where a celebrity and you made a mistake or you where accused of something you didnt do?" and then after that they usually stopped and say they are sorry and that i am right.

but it makes me very very angry when people talk crap about him when he they dont even know him or understand anything!

My life time goal is to meet Michael Jacksons family somehow. since i cant meet Michael anymore i will try to succeed in talking to his family for a while and hopefully meet them.

My first step is to send a letter to the family but i have to find where to send that letter. Well thats part of my story im going to stop there because i dont know if i can take it anymore.