Heath Ledger died.
He was only 28.
The other night, I had a dream my friend's dad died. In the dream, he'd had dinner at my house with my family [just him, mind you, not even he and my friend, it was just him], and we had a really great time. Then he went home and what seemed like minutes later, I got a call from his wife saying he'd died. I remember in the dream feeling this sense of, "But I just saw him! I just talked to him! How could he be gone?!" Pure and utter shock. The kind that makes it hard to breathe and your eyes can't seem to focus on anything, not even thoughts. It was so weird.
Today, that feeling grew even closer. I just saw Heath Ledger in I'm Not There, the Bob Dylan movie. I just talked to Toblerone about The Dark Knight, where Heath plays the Joker. I just told Nadia about how much I am obsessed with him. And now he's gone? I keep refreshing the AOL news page to see if it goes away. Yeah, I didn't know him personally, but I'm weirded out by the fact that this feeling is following me. First in a dream, now in reality? A far off reality, but a reality all the same.
I'm afraid of where it might strike next.
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Our obsession with Heath Ledger cannot continue in the form it did before, but his work will. I just hope my kids think he's as amazing as I did.
I hate when that kind of thing happens1 I'm so in shock about Heath Ledger. There was nothing about him that suggested anything like this could happen. it's not really fair.
Isn't it weird how personally we all took it? I know that it has a lot to do with how personally connected we felt to him in "I'm Not There." Bob Dylan is a special person for us and it was like Heath joined the ranks of hippies with us. And then IMMEDIATELY it became tragedy.
I like it when I'm not the only crazy person to take stuff like that personally.
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