I know nothing at all about Robin Williams other than seeing a few of his films and some of his stand up comic routines on television. But I gathered from those stand up routines that he was a man who paid attention to the events going on in this world. His satire took aim at political folly and global-sized problems, asking which was worse, the problems or the problem-solvers? In other words, Williams had his finger on the pulse of world events. He may well have had everything that money could buy, except solutions to these predicaments that plagued his soul. I am merely speculating, you understand, but he was not a shallow man. He was a thinker, a man whose art demanded he pay attention to what mattered to people. He was also by his own admission an addict and perhaps even bi-polar - who knows. But those diagnoses do not diminish his capacity to observe the world around him; indeed, as I have witnessed with many people who battle mental and emotional sufferings, some of their pain is rooted in their astute powers of observation and not just from their personal lives. All pain is not personal.” Caroline Myss TIME: Billy Crystal has said that standup is how comedians process things that are painful. ROBIN WILLIAMS: Yeah. TIME: But does that mean we have to wish more painful things on you? ROBIN WILLIAMS: You don’t have to. I find them.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 04:10:32 +0000
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