3/19/2011

Does Sheen Know Funny Charlie Sheen T-Shirts Are Making Fun?

By Matthew York


Does no one realize that Charlie Sheen needs help, perhaps even of a medical nature? The man is acting deranged. He has made public declarations of drug use on national news outlets. He babbles in an inane stream of consciousness. He refuses to admit that he may have a mental disorder and he looks like he has not slept in days. Any one of these strange behaviors should indicate that the man needs help, but instead the whole world has pinpointed him as our new capering clown. Our only response is to walk around in funny Charlie Sheen t-shirts and laugh.

We have a tendency to forget that celebrities are just human beings too. They succumb to the same weaknesses that plague any other person. They become addicted to drugs just like any other junkie and they can suffer from mental ailments just as easily as anyone else. Perhaps even more easily, come to think of it. When someone like Charlie Sheen accumulates so much attention and so much wealth, they can experience a very real breaking point. Imagine being so watched, that every small move you make is recorded and scrutinized. If I were Charlie Sheen and I saw people walking down the street in funny Charlie Sheen t-shirts, I might have a mental break as well.

The funny Charlie Sheen t-shirts are really just the beginning of the train wreck that is Charlie Sheen's life. His face is everywhere now. He's been spoofed on Saturday Night Live, remixed a hundred different ways on YouTube, and ridiculed on message boards all across the Internet. The man has either intentionally, or unintentionally, turned himself into one of the biggest living jokes since Michael Jackson. He is a walking sight gag, and may be unemployable as a professional actor. His life may be ruined, and he's too strung out to even realize it.

Before manic fits of televised insanity and funny Charlie Sheen t-shirts, there was just Charlie Sheen the man. He unfurled his wings and leapt from beneath the shadow of his father's impressive acting career and made films that had both critical and commercial success. One of these films will be considered one of the greatest of all times, and that is the film known as "Platoon". He had great promise, but decided to follow the course of parties and drugs instead of the course of professionalism.

Charlie Sheen is no longer the man he once was, nor will he likely ever get to be that man again. There are hoards of new "fans" out there wearing their funny Charlie Sheen t-shirts and waiting for him to say the next funny tagline. This will never lead to his recovery. He will feed the fires of this new kind of fame until he burns out and wafts away on the breeze like a piece of ash. The best thing that we can do for Charlie Sheen is to just leave him be and let him recover.




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