Despair…

This is meant to be a follow-up post to my “The Joker Strikes,” but this time I am taking a different look altogether at the case of Heath Ledger’s death by ‘accidental overdose.’ The life of despair…something which all celebrities encounter on their search for fame and money. (Though I don’t intend to say that all actors/actresses lead a life searching for fame and money, but rather end up in the same field no matter what they do.) It’s a matter of living for the present life, living for oneself, without looking at the the spiritual realm of the world, concerning Heaven and Hell, and the destination of one’s soul.

No matter how hard you look, you will never find a celebrity who has been able to avoid the ‘road’ which Hollywood sets you on. That is, the road which leads to the realization of the emptyness which the things of this world give, and it is at that point, where people turn to the numbing effects of alcohol and drugs to fill this empty void within their soul. My intention is not to label Heath Ledger as an addict or any such thing, but rather, I am looking at the dark side of the situation. Clearly, the role of the Joker has drained him physically and mentally, and in the end, he had to turn to sleeping pills to help get some rest. Is there the possibility that he took a deliberate overdoes of the pills? We cannot be sure, but one thing is for certain, being drained and in such a dangerous state, he did not have any form of prayer life to help confront the dark storm.

Mel Gibson is a similar (yet not so similar) example. He recently has been arrested on D.W.I. Charges (Driving While Intoxicated), much to my surprise. This is the man who was able to capture the moving depiction of the last 12 hours of Christ’s life, how on earth did he end up an alcoholic? When one carefully looks at the cause of Alcoholism, it normally is simply a person’s own way of escaping reality, and seeking a numbing agent to block out his conscience.

Another late ‘victim’ of this entire ‘despair’ scenario, is the singer (if that’s what you want to call her) Britney Spears. She recently shaved her own head in a nervous breakdown, in order that she could ‘escape’ testing for certain drugs within her system. Strange as it may seem, all of these Hollywood incidents are connected one way or another. Mainly by the simple fact that people eventually lose track of what they must seek on their journey through life. The only thing which we may do for these poor souls is pray for their conversion, and hope that they will accept the grace to turn their lives around, and focus on Our Lord and His Blessed Mother.