Thought for Today

He Had It All

Farrokh-Bulsara is not a well known name yet at one point in his life he possessed all the world had to offer. He had become a millionaire at least 50 times over at a relatively early age, he had fame and adulation of fans on a global scale. He once gave himself a birthday party at the exclusive Berkshire Hotel in New York, flew his friends to it from Europe on the Concorde supersonic jet, the party went on for days and was attended by scores of celebrities. Yet with all the trappings of fame and fortune he made this statement.."YOU CAN HAVE EVERTHING IN THE WORLD and still be the loneliest man, I've had lots of lovers, I tried relationships on either side, male and female, but all of them have gone wrong. Sucess has brought me idolization and millions of dollars but has not satisified me."
The man the world knew as Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the rock music group Queen which sold over one-hundred million records made this statement shorty before his death at age fourty-six from the disease AIDS.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark 8:36