Sinead O’Connor, R.I.P.
Jul. 28th, 2023 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenRock music, or whatever they’re calling it these days, has never been my thing, and I have never been a fan of Sinead O’Connor. Nonetheless, I read the front page obituary of her in Thursday’s Washington Post, and I feel for her, although she wasn’t my kind of person. “I’m just a troubled soul who needs to scream into mikes now and then,” she is quoted as saying. Too true. She was a troubled soul, abused as a girl, who seems to have made a mess of her life, and then there was her late-in-life conversion to Islam, not a creed or a way of life which I much admire.
She was in some ways handed misfortune in life, by her upbringing, and perhaps by genes and brain chemistry. Perhaps she could have dealt with her problems better, but how can I judge? She was surely not the only human being scarred from her youth and unable to recover fully. Rest In Peace.
She was in some ways handed misfortune in life, by her upbringing, and perhaps by genes and brain chemistry. Perhaps she could have dealt with her problems better, but how can I judge? She was surely not the only human being scarred from her youth and unable to recover fully. Rest In Peace.
