There is a theory I’ve heard – I’m sure we’ve all heard it – that people usually use to explain (some of) the behaviour of former king of pop, Michael Jackson. It suggests that people are frozen in time at the moment they become famous.
The seismic shift from “normal” to “famous person” somehow obliterates any potential for human growth and development. Perhaps the brain is too preoccupied with processing this “new normal” to do any of the stuff it’s supposed to do. The individual becomes something outside of themselves; instead of being a person, they become the idea of a person, as perceived or portrayed by others.
Dublin is the Michael Jackson of this story, suspended in time at the moment I left it.
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