On Anna Nicole Smith

I'll try to make this entry as straightforward as possible...I contemplated calling this entry "Anna Nicole Smith, R.I.P.", but then I realized that's kind of a silly sentiment given the occasion anyway. For regardless of what I say, the issue of whether Ms. Smith will now rest in peace or not had been decided some time ago, by One Who knows her a LOT better than I do.

Smith was just 39, and from what little I know of her, my first instinct when I think of her life is what a tragic story it turned out to be. Not because the world lost a celebrity who brought a lot to a lot of people...indeed, it seems that Smith's most demonstrable skill was that of being famous, and attracting attention...possibly endearing qualities to some, but not those in which many would feel satisfied with building a life upon.

I can't mourn her passing as though she were a loved one...I never knew her or much about her in a personal sense(and I doubt seriously that most pundits analyzing her today did either). Most all I know of her is what I read in the news or saw on TV or heard on the radio...and the extent to which I saw her, frankly, is not enough to build a strong image of her. My impressions of her are as someone who embodied the spirit of the generation from which she came...and that is the self and fame obsessed, and the deliberately rebellious archetype that is all too prevalent today.

Smith is definitely a product of the "American Idol" generation, in which notoriety and ultimate self-expression are key characteristics...and I, as an amateur societal observer, cannot help but think that all human beings can aspire to higher ambitions than that. The fact that Smith apparently did not is, to me, the main tragedy of her life. Rather than submit her desires and goals to a living Savior who can bring each and every human being up to his or her potential, it seems that Smith "settled" for instant self-gratification at every turn.

Perhaps her life will be an illustration of precisely how wanting that sort of lifestyle orientation can be...it's just a real human shame that so many lives today(including Smith's)tragically end before they get in touch with that Ulimate Power that can bring them to their utmost life potential.

THAT to me is the true tragedy in the premature passing of Anna Nicole Smith.

Not that I'm necessarily better...or more actualized than Smith...but at least I've been delivered from the certain doom that comes from not letting the Architect of Life have His way with me...completely.

And in saying all that, I'm NOT saying Smith did not, categorically...for I simply don't know.

But in the image that Smith left the world, it certainly appears she did not...and therein lies the tragedy in her passing.

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