The Case for Charles Chaplin

It’s interesting what we can learn about someone even though they lived their life way before we could have been born on this planet. That’s one beauty to life – we can learn about others and life regardless of the time period.

Charles Chaplin: April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977

Why does it always seem to be the people who had a terrible upbringing end up being the main people to put on a good laugh and be more successful in doing so than many others? I think it had something to do with the fact that deep inside, they don’t want anyone to suffer like they did. They don’t want to make people cry or feel abandoned. Laughter and positivity is so much better.

But, the problem is not dealing with the pain that it affects personal lives in a big way. I know personally that people can smile big on the outside, but inside is a whole different story. I’ve done that way too many times. I absolutely loved positivity and encouraging others, even when I was basically dying inside. I didn’t really know how to love others because I didn’t know how to love myself. I dealt with way too much hurt and I didn’t know how to deal with it. So, I understand Chaplin’s ways. Our childhood could be a big reason why we tend to do things a certain way when we’re adults. I believe that when there’s a lot of anger and jerk moments, people could be crying out within instead. Of course not everyone so I believe this is maybe 80% of the time. It’s important to discern where people are coming from. Are people just a jerk for no reason or is there a deep reason beneath? Of course I could be wrong, but I kept seeing that with Chaplin the more I looked into his story and background. It seemed to me that he never actually dealt with his own grievances in his past and just basically self-destructed. It is said that “hurting people, hurt people” so I think that’s what had happened with the Chaplin crew. Our hurting hearts could affect other people without realizing it at times.

Please know that I am definitely not accepting Chaplin’s behavior. I am understanding his side, but not accepting it. There are consequences to everything we will ever do on this earth. Broken hearts can still bring consequences to other people and the world around us. Although I could understand what he was going through, I truly believe he definitely needed an intervention. He developed an addiction, a sex addiction, and addictions usually mask any hurts instead of dealing with it head-on. The more we would deal with issues to the root instead, the better off we all could be. We can’t get anywhere by ignoring anything.