This loss has been weighing heavy on me. My grandma bought me yeah right & the hot chocolate tour along with my first skateboard and I watched those videos at least twice a day. Since I already knew how to shuv, I would rewatch that shuv-it rewind bench line over and over while trying to learn them in my garage. Fast forward into early adulthood and his epically layer’d on vbs always resonated with me. There’s a quote in that where he talks about how while filming fully flared and struggling with substance abuse, everyone around him had had enough of him all the while not understanding why they were over his self absorbed bullshit, as he was too caught up in his own head to realize how much of an asshole he was being (his words not mine). This is something I too have struggled with and have damaged many relationships in the process……. I don’t have Instagram anymore and was getting on FB on Tuesday morning to do my normal marketplace digging and stumbled across a repost of Louie’s eulogy. I didn’t know what I was reading and at first I thought it was a post announcing his comeback until the news hit me like a ton of bricks. As much as Marc and the people around him made many mistakes handling his downfall let’s not forget that Marc was a person who had demons many of us will never understand and paid the ultimate price to rid himself of that pain. Blaming and pointing fingers at this point is useless, the people involved now have to carry this weight and that is punishment enough. Rest easy MJ, thank you for all you did for skateboarding as well as reminding me that I am not the only person struggling with an overactive brain swimming with demons.
Topic: R.I.P. Marc Johnson (Read 75090 times)