Death.

Why is that people are more recognized for the things they do after they have pasted? Is it that people pity their death? Or is the saying "You don't know what you got" a reality? Sometimes I feel as if I understand, but then I don't.

Today I read the front of newspaper, saying how emotional for people it was, when Heath Ledger won an Oscar Sunday night. But does he really deserve that? Would he have won that very same award if he was alive? Yes he is a talented actor, but has everyone become so soft hearted that we take pity on the recently past?

As I see it, it's adorable if you give someone who has died an award. If they truly deserve it. Personally I rarely pay attention to stuff like that. Someone dies, I am aware, but why would you give them an award? Because to me if this person is dead, why give them something? Do you want their family to look at it everyday saying "Gosh, he won that, because the world pitied that fact he went and killed himself." Harsh as that sounds, it's true. People pity others too much.

What is the point? Why is that when someone is gone, we tend to pay more attention to them? Like Jett Travolta, I had no idea he existed until he died. [I say "died" because "passed on" sounds sugar-coated.] Now everyone knows who he and actually gives a damn.

It's terrible that people have to die to know their alive.