From Now To Eternity

Syd Barrett passed away last Friday. To me, it was quite a shock: I thought he was dead long before I was born. Maybe because he hasn't made any public appearances in the last 30 years or because he left Pink Floyd back in 1968 due to his drug problems and hard to deal persona.
But now I come to think of how some people doesn't need much time to engrave their names on history. Syd was a member of Pink Floyd for less than 3 years, yet some folks still light candles in his honours and wacky musicians attribute to him the inspirations to create the oddliest sounds imaginable. Another Sid, the Vicious, had a career even shorter than Barrett's, yet he's still celebrated by millions of punks or people who think they're punk, or just a bunch a random people, anyway. And well, we had plenty of Morrisons, Hendrixes, Elvises, and etc.
And now I wonder, how things would be if those folks were still around? Probably the aura around them would be disrupted, or maybe we would realize they aren't the geniuses we always believed they were.
But anyway, that makes me think we don't need to be perfect forever, we don't need to be heroes...we can just draw a couple of good lines before retreating back to the obscurity of a normal life.