More powerful than fame
In our media driven by the cult of personality, stories about celebrities grab a lot of attention, especially when they’re dramatic. But what’s more attention-grabbing than the indomitable will to live? Would the pop culture media even notice? Would they do such a story?
Note the headline and main point of this one…
[Celebrity] “Bret Michael’s will ‘to live fully and recover is undeniable’
He suffered a terrible neurological event last week.
“There is no doubt that Mr. Michaels’ condition is serious. We are treating the subarachnoid hemorrhage, which caused his severe cranial pain,” says Joseph Zabramski, a top neurosurgeon at Barrow Neurological Institute…
However, “Bret’s sheer will to live and fully recover is undeniable,” says Zabramski. “He has an unbelievable fight in him and told me what kept him alive at the moment of the hemorrhage was that he ‘did not want his family to wake up and see him lying unconscious in the middle of the floor.’ It was a combination of Bret’s fight to stay conscious during the hemorrhage and get to the emergency room, and the immediate medical attention provided by our staff at Barrow, that enabled us to stabilize his condition.”
The strength of the will to live and the love of family remains outside the bounds of understanding by medicine or science. But at least we can still be in awe of it, and respect its power. It is the force more powerful…
