Josiah Leming re-do

When I posted the Josiah Leming blog, I really didn't have much time at all to explain my point.  I didn't want to save it as a draft though, cause I figured I'd never go back to it.  So I posted it as is, and I knew it would be confusing.  So, after I got such a nice flush of comments (Thanks, everyone! I can't say how much I love it!!), I figured I'd give it the time to fully explain it.

So this picture on Josiah's myspace, it's of him simply smoking a cigarette. I'll attach it.  And it now has 149 comments, most of them about this little teeny tiny cig.  And this one girl, who had previously bagged on him for smoking in another comment, was saying how she knows it's his decision, and how she just wishes he wouldn't smoke, and yada yada yada.  So, at the end of this comment, she said stuff like ...but I still love your music, and I still care about you, and "you're still in my prayers."

And I read that, and I honestly thought What? Because I couldn't figure out what she would be praying for.  Because my first thought was I don't think I would ever pray for Josiah Leming. Now, I don't know what she was praying for, but I eventually came up with some things that I would actually pray for.  I would pray that he finds someone he can be truly close with, because I think the kid is lonely as hell.  I would pray that...I dunno, he stays safe on tour.  Stuff like that.  But by the time Josiah comes up on my Things-to-pray-for list, I would have probably been praying for hours.  Doesn't she have someone close to her that is truly hurting?  It sounds really horrible of me to say things like that.  But it's a legit question.

And the term "right or wrong" really wasn't right.  Or...accurate, I should say.  I was just thinking about that idea.  I guess I was thinking about whether I would do that or not.  But I do think it's amazing that a little cigarette busted this huge conversation on his page.  I mean like 70% of musicians smoke.  Haha it makes me laugh a little.