Goodbye Robin Williams thank you for living the way you did. here is my farewell letter to you... Dear Robin Williams, i love you. I was so surprised to hear about your death, it hit me in my gut and weighed heavily on my heart, I was truly surprised and did not want to believe that you had and have truly passed away. Even more surreal and less able am I to accept that I hear you hanged yourself... but through writing this letter, I am coming to terms with what has happened. The only way I can understand your suicide is if I look, which I feel now somewhat compelled to do, so deeply at my own suffering, despair and sadness, my loneliness and hopelessness, that I understand how I could hang myself and want to put and end to it all. Your death is a confrontation to love, live and accept myself as a man, to see my own good, and that it is greater than my evil, shadow or dark side, to let the past be the past, grit my teeth and just get on and live. Oh God... Robin, I will miss you, even though we never met personally, Your light shines through your words and acting and has touched me deeply... You were like a father from far away to me through films like Captain Hook in which you played the irreplaceable Peter Pan and made so clear in words what every child feels and cannot necessarily pronounce; the magic of hope and love, and how by just holding onto one thought, one kindness, one loving belief, you can actually fly, whilst this hasnt worked physically for me yet, it certainly worked and continues to work mentally, in my imagination. You stood and through your films and recordings continue to stand for freedom, for love and courage, even though you committed suicide, to me you are and always will be, because of what you have done, a Hero, who embraced life with open arms and a wide smile, with wit and the ability to push through supposedly solid walls and punch through to outside of the box. You are and were such a warm hearted, strong, and loving image of what a Man can and could be, and I honor and love you for what you have achieved in your life. Now that you are gone, I wish all the more you were here. While my mind knows I will never actually meet you, my heart cannot grasp that fact. As you once so wisely said „Bad things will happen to you but they will wake you up to the good things“, Robin Williams, you were and are one of the best things in my life, and simultaneously hearing about your death is a bad and good thing: terrible because you are gone, good because you shine now, like Nelson Mandela also did, with all you have done in your life, and remind those who you touched about the truth which you spoke and live. I remember you for your role in Mrs. Doubtfire and how you helped me understand what my own parents were going through. I will carry you and all you stood for, dearly in my heart. I love your courage, to be open, to be vulnerable, to redefine manliness in a male dominated world, to be funny, to be crazy, to be all out, outrageously spontaneously amazing, like Genie in Aladdin, and your wild self in Jumanji. I want to tell you, I can feel your pain, I can understand your depression, I dont blame you for killing yourself, I am not angry at you for leaving, but I am sad you are no longer here. I will never stop loving you and what you lived for and I am working on embodying your values myself, so that rebelliousness against the tyranny of the status quo, the victory of love and the imagination over day-to-day life, and simple heart felt courage and kindness can also continue to grow and flourish and spread in a world which desperately needs it. Right now I am looking at a big collage of portraits of you on google, and I am thinking about how you, as one of many, helped make the world we live in today possible, about how much has changed since you were born, and what the movement of the 60s changed, and what your part in a film like „Good Morning Vietnam“ did for the consciousness of humanity waking us up to the plight of suffering and the delusion of war being a good thing. I am considering... what if you had never lived? What would the world look like? Who knows what would or wouldnt have happened, it is impossible to know, but to me it intuitively feels like you were a domino stone in a chain of unlikely events which helped make the world a grander, more love filled place... Love and so much Gratitude, Sam, A fan. https://youtube/watch?v=vyRrdhwBBMc #RobinWilliams
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:15:20 +0000
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