sudden empathy for a celebrity

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxLToHlstyY[/youtube]

i was looking up an old song i used to like on youtube and accidentally found out that one of the boyzone members is dead.

back in the days i didn't care enough about boybands to know how boyzone was different from the others, but after googling stephen gately i have this weird feeling like i've always known him. so instead of brushing off his death as something that would've happened to anyone, i've been watching old boyzone music videos and wondering how it must've felt like to be him--both on- and off-stage.

cute kid. great voice. lovely accent. had a real passion for the arts. and word on the street is he was one of the nicest guys in the business. makes me a little sad that i didn't get to pay attention to him when he was alive--especially since he died only a year ago.

i think for the first time in my life, i'm feeling what some people feel when they cry over the death of someone who doesn't even know their name.

I cried when Stephen Gately died. I sort of had known him all my life in a weird, detatched sort of way. I didn't know him personally but me and my friend had a very special bond caused by Boyzone and to find out one of them had passed away was like losing part of the bond. I know that sounds kind of stupid... and probably is, but also Stephen Gately was my first childhood crush

I remember when he came out in public and all I thought, as a sweet child, was 'why do people hate him now?' Mum had to explain to me that some people were very cruel and didn't like gay people. I had never come across this before so it was really confusing to me. Me and my friend made a 'radio show' (cute!) where we both defended Stephen like he was our family or something.

I understand what you are saying though. It's like for me, when Princess Diana died. I was about 8 or 9 at the time and I couldn't understand why so many people were crying about an image on the TV... I didn't put two and two together and realise that she was a real person! I remember having a temper tantrum in fact because Sky 1 cancelled Pokémon...

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

I apologize that I STILL don't know how to post a youtube vid... here's a link to my favourite solo single of Stephen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JygR0K8r ... re=related

It's terrible quality as well... I'm sure I used to see a better one...

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

I feel bad about Macaulay Culkin. The kid was put through God knows what by that psychopathic father of his, and God knows what by MJ. Life can become a b***h earlier than you think.

I've been feeling empathy for a role model for over a year now. The good and the bad things that happened to him.