Sheep

Reading some of the over-the-top obituaries for Stephen Gately, it made me wonder if there are any hardcore Boyzone fans out there contemplating ending it all. A few months back several Michael Jackson fans committed suicide after he died; they just couldn’t live in a world without the King of Pop. A lot of the more dedicated Jacko fans are a bit unstable upstairs. They would have ate his garbage if he asked them.

Those MJ fans are probably the biggest sheep on the planet. Some of these sheep were sheep right to the end, topping themselves, in some sort of lame King of Pap suicide-cult thing. That got me thinking about actual sheep, and how they follow the shepherd everywhere without question. The difference between these actual sheep and pop-culture sheep is that even if their beloved shepherd suddenly dies, the real sheep somehow muster the strength to go on.