This is my second attempt at something original. Unlike my last posting, this is of a more serious nature. Tonight my little sister suffered a loss. She found out that someone she knew died last night, he was only 16. As I was talking to her, a dedication started to form in my head. I wanted to write something, to put down my feelings on paper. To give my sister something she could take to school and place on her friend's memorial. This is what I wrote.
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This is dedicated to Adam, and to all those who have died young. You’re lives were cut short in so many ways. You had just started to explore life, only to have it end.
This alone is tragic enough, to die so young. You never got to experience all the things life has to offer. The joys, and the pains. The small joys, the first day of being a senior in HS, going to the prom, graduating, starting college, falling in love, traveling, making a name for yourself, making your dreams come true.
Cynics might say you just avoided heartache and pain, I think that is only their way of dealing with the loss. Because one of the other things that makes your deaths so tragic, is that you left friends and family behind. People who love and care about you, there is a hole left in their life.
They walk into class, and expect to see you there, just like always. Just as you expected to walk into the very same room, before your time on earth was cut short. You touched many lives, some of which you never even knew were there. But you touched them non the less.
It might have been as simple as a wave in the hallways between classes, a “hi” in the lunch line, but you will be remembered. That is my promise to you, that you will not be forgotten. You have reminded us, though you never planned to, that life is short, and we must live each moment to the best of our ability.
After something like this happens, everyone says things about how you are in a better place, that it happened for a reason. These phrases are clichéd, and don’t really help, but they are true. And in time, they will sink in, and reassure us.
I know that somewhere you are looking down on us, guiding us, an ever present reminder of how precious life is. Your physical time was short lived, but you will live forever in our hearts. We will carry round the memories of you in our hearts, and in this way, you will be with us always.
Edited by: Oracle Of Magic
at: 5/31/04 1:18 pm
. Love sam xx 
