A Tribute to Robin WIlliams (1951-2014)

Nanoo Nanoo! Gooooood morning Vietnam!

Robin Williams is no more (August 12, 2014) ... another victim of celebrity falling prey to loneliness, substance abuse and depressive illness...

Immortalized movie roles and iconic identities:
Mork, Vietnam's Adrian Cronauer, Dead Poet Society's John Keating, Mrs Doubtfire, Bicentennial man, Reverend Frank, Father Moinighan, Worlds' greatest dad Lance Clayton, Good Will Hunting Sean McGuire, Jakob the Liar, Dr Patch Adams, Fisher King, Aladdin's genie, Hook's Peter Pan, Awakenings' Dr Malcolm Sayer, Baron Munchausen, Popeye, Being Human's Hector, Seize the Day Tommy Wilhelm, TS Garp, etc, etc...

Obama the president... As always the pithy, mot juste and eloquent Obama! Alas if only reality is as smoothly eloquent and as simple to preside over.... RIP Mr Williams!

"Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien – but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most – from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams."

~ President Barack Obama

But let's celebrate what this illustrious actor and comedian had left for us... more laughs, more smiles, more tears, more tenderness...

Words and ideas can change the world for the better, or worse...

That is why most autocratic and oppressive governments fear knowledge, the internet, liberalism and EDUCATION!

Leave some traces of goodness, smiles and love in our lives, our erstwhile sojourn of finite decades, no matter how small, these traces would be like the quantum flutterings of a butterfly, immeasurably but in some nonlinear manner, trigger similar goodness in another time and space.

I believe the Good trumps and outweighs all Evil, these checkered millennia of mankind, that's why we're still here today... from barbarity to civilised society! But we have to keep Evil in check by espousing and sharing Good with constant civilisational dialogue, personal growth and human development especially from the standpoint of mental, psychological, sociological and philosophical advancement.

We have to want to build a better humanity for All, and not hanker for a changed world just for a few chosen ones, for some arbitrary fraternal interests and exclusive man-made self-centred or ethnocentric or religious communalism!