Posted by Witch Hazel | Posted in brew health, don cornelius, whitney houston | Posted on 13-02-2012
The deaths of Whitney Houston and Don Cornelius have left many of us ready to speed into March and get this dreadful Black History Month over with already. After the initial shock and mourning, I started thinking about what can we really learn from the demise of these two great people. We Witches have reflected, fellow blogger Brooke Dean did a great piece today on Whitney’s life and dozens of Brewchies left their memories of Whitney on our Facebook wall all weekend. Our community will be grieving these losses for a long time. But, still, these deaths were weighing heavily on my heart, so I continued to look for the lesson (that’s sorta my thing, I guess).
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So we lost Whitney, I was in my car Saturday night when the text messages started coming in, “Whitney Houston is dead”, “Whitney Houston died”.…… I dismissed the first one as pure foolishness, there was just no way this could possibly be true. Then I got the 3rd and the 4th text message and then I realized there was no way it wasn’t true. I kinda drove home the rest of the way in a haze. I, like millions of others have clowned Whitney’s shenanigans over the years, who wouldn’t I guess, I imagine even in the years to come, in spite of her death, people will defer to her infamous tragic moments. I remember the fresh faced girl with the lil pitty pat fro that came on the scene, so beautiful with that insanely awesome voice, I thought you had to weigh about 425lbs and be in a Baptist choir to own a voice of that magnitude but Whitney was about 110lbs wet, where was she housing the hefty woman??? Simply put Whit was the bomb! Whit IS the bomb! I’m sure I’m not the only one who saw billions of tweets and facebook stats “is anyone surprised?” and ‘I told you so!”….. UGH! yes we can all assume that struggles with drugs may likely result in a negative outcome but I was more than a little thrown off by everyone being a self proclaimed clairvoyant. “She was headed down this road, why is anyone surprised?”. Sometimes the internet really makes me wonder why the world is so effed up because 90% of internet posters carry on as if they’ve never made mistakes or made bad choices. I for one have and probably will continue to, sure my problem is not drugs but bad choices are bad choices and can be detrimental in the same way as narcotic abuse I suppose. Unlike the ” Itoldyasoer’s” , I can honestly say I DID NOT see Whitney dying, I saw her maybe still having some public struggles with things, still getting involved in antics to make us giggle and shake our heads at her and yes, still living enough to try to do better, like every one of us does everyday. 
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