Celebrity-Jinx

I now officially call myself the Celebrity Jinx. I have so far liked few celebrities, and now, most of them are dead. Yes. D-E-A-D. Passed away. Have gone to the afterlife. Need I say more? However, I think I may have only jinxed local celebrities, because the foreign celebrities that I love are still alive (i.e. Robert Downey Jr., Patrick Dempsey, Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Heath Ledger) Oh shoot! I just remembered that Heath Ledger died at the age of 28 last January 22, 2008 due to accidental overdose of prescription medication. There goes my theory about me jinxing only local celebrities! Anyway . . .

Among the local artists that I really really liked are Rico Yan, Gerard Fainsan (of the Universal Motion Dancers) and Marky Cielo. I liked them to the point of being delusional. There was a time when I obssessed over Rico Yan and intended to marry him (even if he doesn't know me). I tried to look for Gerard Fainsan's number in the yellow pages when I was in college. I stayed up past midnight to see if Marky Cielo would win Starstruck Batch 3. I spent some of my precious time admiring these young artists. I watched their films and TV series, bought their CD's and read about them in magazines. Little did I know, that my admiration would only turn to disappointment by their untimely deaths.

Gerard Fainsan, a member of the Universal Motion Dancers, died in 1997 due to asthma attack. Rico Yan (March 14, 1975-March 29, 2002) died of cardiac arrest due to acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis. Marky Cielo (May 12, 1988 - December 7, 2008), unexpectedly died in his sleep. All of them died at the height of their career. Life doesn't seem fair, does it?

Right now, I am still a little sad for Marky Cielo's death. His role as Billy Lobregat in LaLola is the last time I'm going to see him on TV. His death has given me a wake up call: I will never ever obssess over celebrities anymore. Whether I'm a jinx or not, it really doesn't matter. Life is too short to spend so much time obsessing over things that decay. I should make better use of my time and pay more attention to those who are near me, rather than the TV.

But if I am an overly superstitious person, I would believe that I am somehow responsible for these deaths and that I should be banned from liking celebrities. If Ryan Agoncillo (another actor that I really really like) dies an untimely death, like from a freak accident of some sort, I swear I would never watch TV again.