You’re not crazy for feeling this again

Sometimes the grief isn’t only about losing Michael. 🤍

For many people, it’s also about watching someone they loved be laughed at, misunderstood, humiliated, or endlessly picked apart in front of the world.
The biopic, old interviews, performances, documentaries, photos, and memories can bring all of that back at once — not just the music, but the emotions attached to his life.

A lot of fans carry sadness over the feeling that Michael spent years trying to explain himself while the world kept turning him into a headline instead of a human being.

Whether you’ve been grieving since 2009 or are only now realizing certain emotions are resurfacing again, you are not strange for feeling affected by it.
Music forms emotional connections.
So does empathy.
So does witnessing suffering.
For many people, Michael represented sensitivity, kindness, loneliness, love, childhood, escape, hope, creativity, or simply feeling understood during difficult periods of life.

Sometimes grief resurfaces because something inside us remembers all over again:
who he was to us
what his music carried us through
and how painful it felt watching someone so loved also seem so hurt.
This community is here so people don’t have to carry those feelings alone or feel embarrassed by them.
You don’t have to explain your grief here for it to be valid. 🤍