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I brainwave it riveting that our body politic is grief-stricken two notorious individuals whom scarcely any person knew. People all decussate America are talking around President Ford and James Brown in brilliant and endearing terms, nearly as if the two of them had been our neighbouring neighbors. Only they weren't, but it doesn't seem to event. We grieve their deaths because some of them were chief to us as a res publica. President Ford took terminated once President Nixon resigned, at a central tine in our what went before. We had retributive suffered through with Watergate, the most unpleasant example of governmental lack of skill and graft we had of all time seen. We were victims as a nation, and Gerry Ford became our First Healer. James Brown came about once Afro-Americans in America were disenfranchised, once music in this land really sounded like-minded "white-bread." He revolutionized the easy on the ear industry, and we are a higher and a much sophisticated countryside gratitude to his hard work.

But detour from those who were instinctively entangled near them, utmost Americans did not know, nor ever meet, any one of these larger-than-life individuals. And yet, we weep for them as if we had noted them. What's going on here?

I will name it "The If Factor." In short, what goes through with our minds and long whist once a foremost individual dies is: "if they could do it, so can I." Both President Ford and James Brown were "little people," rightful approaching you and me. Their condition were zero special, neither one was whelped into opulence or warranted success, yet some of them became men who achieved individualized fulfillment, and were honorable by others for what they had skilled. You and I visage at them near longing, as if to say: why can't I do what they did? What is fillet me from emergent up and comely an point of view in this world? Surely I have gifts and talents, as they did, so "if" they could revise the word, so can I!"

So what do we truly mourn? The certainty that they died? Yes, and that is absolutely conventional Their deaths are a loss to this bucolic. But what other do we mourn? Do we lament that we cannot go sky-high to greatness resembling they did, that we are helpless to pull off because _________(you steep in the clean with why you assume you're blocked)? If so, curtail sorrowful and start living-remember, "if" they could do it, so can we!