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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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 Posted - May 04 2007 : 1:05:44 PM
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| I'm not sure why I'm posting this here, but it's been a very sad week following a very sad winter and spring in general. I had to go to two funerals this week for two different friends. Not close, talk-to-on-the-phone-every-day friends, but people who my husband and/or I had known for years. Both of them apparently committed suicide. The second death in particular has been hard to deal with. He was my brother-in-law's best friend, and since my sister and her husband met in high school, that means I've been seeing this guy at family gatherings since we were all teenagers. He also worked at the local YMCA, so I would encounter him occasionally and say hello. He was still in his twenties, and was just such a good person. Very quiet, a little shy, but so nice and so willing to be a friend to everyone around. I was feeling a little silly to be so upset by his death, when he wasn't really "my" friend. But when I saw how many people came to the funeral, and how so many of us were moved to tears, I realized that it was just a tribute to who he was. The priest said something very profound in his homily, that our friend had seemed to struggle to find his niche in life but really he was right there in his niche the whole time, loving and being loved by his family, friends, and the community. I'm very glad I made it a point to stop and talk to him when I saw him at the Y a few weeks ago, and I wish that I still had time to get to know him better as an individual rather than just one of my sister's crew. I guess that's the reason I'm posting this. Just to remind everyone not to take the people around you for granted, because you never know when you've seen them for the last time. |
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Too many funerals
