One of the most popular dance steps of all time, the moon walk, was authored by Michael Jackson. It is the dance step for which Michael Jackson has been widely known for. According to Wikipedia, the moon walk is “a dance technique that presents the illusion of the dancer being pulled backwards while attempting to walk forward.”

Looking at the dance and the definition behind it, I was able to see a moral lesson between Michael Jackson’s final years of his life and his moon walk. Please take not that I have no intentions whatsoever to mock Michael Jackson, but only to illustrate the lessons we can learn from his life and his famous moon walk.

Gaining over 750 million purchased records, winning 13 Grammy Awards, and reaching the no. 1 spot 13 times with his singles, Michael Jackson became the most successful entertainer of his time. Not including his music catalog, which is supposedly worth more than a billion dollars, the King of Pop’s lifetime earning was estimated to have reached more than $ 500 million dollars.

In spite of all the fortune and fame he gained, struggles of depression and debt wreck havoc in the last part of his life. To some people, his two year seclusion of himself from his family and friends and his struggles with money worsened his fragile health. Ironically, he was a person loved and adored by his millions of fans, yet he passed away broken hearted, miserable and lonely.

With all the bad circumstances that happened to Michael Jackson during his last days of his life, I thus refer to his final years as his final moon walk. I refer to his last years of his life as his final moon walk because no matter how much he tried to move forward in his life, his actions only caused him to move backwards. But unlike the moon walk, everything that happened to him in his final years was not mere illusions. Here are things about the life of Michael Jackson that I think will give us lessons in life:

1.) Always live within your means – Despite earning millions of dollars every year, during the last years of his life it is said that Michael Jackson spends $ 20 to 30 million more than what he earns with his lavish lifestyle. As a result he was deeply in debt. Various people including a Bahrain sheik accused him of not paying what he owed them. He lost his well beloved Neverland Ranch. Although his assets outweigh his debt by an estimated $200 million U.S dollars, Michael Jackson died owing more than $ 400 million. While it is true that as a “star” he earned the right to live a lavish lifestyle because he deserved it, he should have lived well within his means and should have properly taken care of his finances. Because of his failure to do such, it further contributed to his depression.

2.) Life may be tough, but you’ve got to learn to face your problems – Michael Jackson may have achieved a certain amount of success in his life, but he never learned to face his problems. When he became depressed he turned to anything from plastic surgery, isolation and drug abuse. After he was accused of child molestation, he was so depressed that he was never the same again. J Randy Taraborrelli described how he escaped from his problem in an article for the daily mail, “He surrounded himself with children, animals and a false reality – so much so that he never learned how to cope in the real world. He never wanted to grow up, and his managers encouraged these eccentricities when they should have encouraged therapy.”

3.) Fame and fortune does not equate joy and happiness – Yes, the King of Pop no doubt has achieved so much in his lifetime. So much that he broke records that he himself achieved, opened up racial barriers and reinvented the world of music. However, though he had these great successes and the love of millions, the final years of his life was marked with loneliness, unhappiness sadness, depression and the feeling of being unloved. He kept to himself, away from friends and family.

There are so many lessons to be learned from the King of Pop’s final moon walk, but I will stop here and let you think more of the King of Pop’s final moon walk. I am hoping and praying that you can see lessons from his final moon walk. Let us just hope that our final moon walk would turn out to be much better than the King of Pop.

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