As your Pop Icons pass, you will surely follow. 

If you are a boomer, or even if you are not, we have seen some major American pop icons pass on this year already.  How about Marilyn Chambers, Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett and now Michael Jackson...  He had just turned fifty.  But it is not really his age, for folks pass on at all ages, and sometimes for no specific reason.

 

I never personally knew any of them, but I had contact with them often.  They are like road markers in your life.  How many times did you her: Here’s Johnny?  Or walked into a room and saw a poster of Fawcett on the wall, or watched the Thriller video...They all helped personify our own existence.  They were part of us and we were part of them. 

In the end, no celebrity status or amount of money changes the true human experience.  It is the same for all of us, and it ends in the same place. 

So as your icons continue to pass and your life clock continues to tick to toward its final tock, it is a great time to stop a minute, take a deep breath, look where you are, and be present with your life and your existence. 

The universal law of nature: that nothing is permanent, rules all living creatures 

So as the icons in your life continue to pass, be they national celebrities or just plain folks, they call to us and say: stop, and be real.  Enjoy life and share more with all those around you.    One day it will be your obit in print, and that is just the way it is. 

It is all a very natural process.