The Real Princess Diana..
I remember the Day she passed away, the day of her accident. I remember my mother crying and my older cousins. God I even remember the maid crying. And yes I cried too although I have no idea why. It was instilled into this peanut sized brain of mine that Diana was this charitable lady, who was what the heroin in every princess movie was probably based on. And funny enough I believed it without really knowing the lady. I remember that when asked who inspired me I would’ve said “Princess Diana” with calm certainty but thinking now, would my answer still be the same.
Deep thinking (I warned you that I am a random deep thinker) got me pondering on this answer. If the accident was in 1997 I would have been at that time 9 yrs old. Now how would a 9 yr old be able to understand the complexity of the sensationalized princess Diana at such a young age? Man at that age I was still climbing rambutan trees. So how the hell did I know of all the so-called inspirational things Princess Diana did if I weren’t fully grown to understand it? Moreover, I have concluded that like my friend said “I only cried during her death because everyone else was and I didn’t want to be left out.” I was told or must have read somewhere that she was great and that was enough for my peanut sized brain and till today I would have said I admire her but if you ask me why and what she’s done for society my answer would be a damning “uhhhhhh I don’t know” because that is the god honest truth.. Do any of us (of my age of course
But who am I to judge her. When she was alive and doing her supposed good deeds I wasn’t old enough to even remember them and I wasn’t old enough to see to what extent was she charitable. But she must have been judging by the number of people who turned up for her funeral. But that still doesn’t solve why I and so many others my age, were so infatuated with her? Or why we idolized her so much when even know I don’t know what she did or how she contributed to society? How was she charitable? I donno..
Now that has led me to conclude that she was probably either over sensationalized and the media probably played a big important role in this tsk tsk tsk naughty media!! Another reason might be because she was really as great as she really was and our parents who knew this all along but didn’t care to tell us poor children why, influenced us into thinking she was great.
So there you are. I’m not saying its wrong to idolize princess Diana I still secretly idolize her, probably out of habit. But what I am suggesting is with the help of our beautiful Google friend, Google her and find out what she really did so that you have a reason to really admire this powerful woman and your idolizing will be for naught.. Hahahah how’s that for deep.
But I’m sorry princess Diana (may you rest in peace) although deep in my fist-sized heart I know you must be admirable and more, I believe someone has taken your place on the top shelf of my idolize cupboard..