I was hanging out with one of my girlfriends the other day and she has a young boy who is about 10 years old I think. We were just sitting there having a coffee and a chit chat when this young kid comes up and says “Mom I want to be like Michael Jackson – can I get a Michael Jackson costume?”.

I was just blown away, Michael Jackson was an icon of my generation, but sadly I thought he had been almost forgotten in recent years. It seemed the whole world turned their back on him when his life got tough, only to exclaim “Michael was the king of pop!” when he died recently.

I find this attitude troubling, human nature I guess, but still, wouldn’t it have been nice to have shown him how we felt when he was still alive?

Anyway, I couldn’t help myself, I jumped straight online to see if we could find this young man an outfit so he could dress up as his new hero. And low and behold up comes Michael Jackson costumes for kids.

This is going to be one happy kid I can tell you – we ordered right away.

I’m just really happy that the younger generation still love Michael the way some of us always did.