I just found out that someone from high school passed away from a heart attack. He was a year ahead of me and in a couple of my classes. We didn't hang out, mostly because he was cool I didn't really hang out with too many (any) cool people in high school... but after graduation he got a job at Perkins and we waited tables together. He was really funny and did cool stuff like make milkshakes with coffee and Reese's peanut butter cups when the manager wasn't looking. They were soooo good and very ahead of their time. It was 1990, mind you.
Anyway, I can't believe all the people I know that have died. When I first graduated there was a rash of suicides including the class clown. Can you believe that? The guy had been cracking jokes and torturing teachers since fourth grade but then shot himself a couple years after graduation. Another guy was totally hot the object of a secret crush my junior year (and maybe senior year) but he committed suicide shortly after school too.
These days cancer seems to be claiming several of my friends. Now a heart attack. I thought this stuff happened when you hit retirement age. It's depressing to think of your own mortality, or worse, your family's.
I'll probably never forget the very first time I felt old. It was when we were working together and I asked you if you remembered that song "boogie nights" and you said that you had never heard of it. Then it took me a minute to realize that it probably came out before your time :D
ReplyDeleteIt is very sad to hear about people passing away like that. One of my recent experiences kind of related to that was finding out that my roommie's friends -4 guys driving up here passed away on their way to a Dallas Cowboys game. They were behind an 18 wheeler and attempted to pass and ended up in a head-on collision. I can't count how many times I had driven on that same road and passed vehicles in my lane. (It's a 2 way road.) It seems so weird that they didn't make it and how easily it could have been me.
Life is so precious -and can be gone in an instant. By the way, have I ever told you that you're so cool and I'm grateful that you're my friend? :D -KB (#ihaven'tbeendrinking!)
You're funny, KB. I didn't suspect you of drinking and I'm grateful too! =D
ReplyDeleteThat's an awful story. I'm always so scared of passing or even watching other people pass on those roads.