More Random Thoughts on D'Angelo, his musical talents, and life & death....
You know, as I've looked at and acknowledged the number of tributes, respect, and outpouring of love, I began to zero in on what his last days and months were possibly like. It has been of course acknowledged that his succumbing to the illness of pancreatic cancer was the cause of his death. The more I think on the previous, the more I look at his death as a possible opportunity to have a needed peace from pain in suffering. Therefore I now kind of feel glad for him instead of sad (no more suffering).
I now only wished that I got a chance to see him perform live as I've done so many times with my other favorite artists.
We as fans will miss his presence, but it really feels to me as most of us already know that the artistic work that he left us with was what he had been called to do and will still be left for us to enjoy even more until our season is up physically.
I say all of the above to say, that when I was younger of course, the thought of death be it by someone close or not used to scare me so much. As I've gotten older, I've gotten better with it. It is still not easy as if my spouse, children, or my still living parents were to be taken away physically, I don't know how I would take it, but I have gotten better with it accepting that fact that death is natural and when it happens around me, just continue to consider it as simply a part of life's constant evolution, especially when someone has already given so much positivity to the world for all of us to enjoy. <--the later for me also gives the phrase well done and deeper meaning for mysef.
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