Tuesday 27 December 2016

Goodbye beautiful..

I suppose I was just the right age when the film The Empire Strikes Back came out. I was a boy who was still childishly dismissing girls as people I'd never play with, whilst becoming uncomfortably aware that I had these confusing feelings for the opposite sex.

I've almost never had any romantic or sexual interest in celebrities, couldn't understand people who do. But sitting in that London cinema, and seeing the emotions playing across Princess Leia's face, I suddenly realised that everything had changed for me. Life was going to get a good deal more complex from now on - especially if I ever met anyone who had that effect on me (only one or two women I've known ever have)

The way Carrie Fisher's face broke into a smile was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Her voice was almost as lovely. I now look back and realise that (till today) I lived on the same earth as this absolutely radiant human being, and - had I been in the right place at the right time - might have met her.

Now I never can.