Sky
A friend of mine passed away last week...on thursday...and man it hurt like hell, I've known him since friggin' highschool! (yeah, like 7 years or something...) even though we couldn't contact each other so much due to him being in the Law faculty and me being here in Accountancy and Managment we were 'siblings'...his name was Daniel.
I'm going to write a lot, I want to remember everything I can and I'm gonna write it here so long entry will be long, sorry U_U
So maybe some of you remember this friends I always go and play games with, the ones that come to my home in the mountains to have a sleepover? This guys are my 'family'. Really! since Highschool we have been having this going on, our mother, a step-father (because he was not there since the beginning :P) and we were 4 kids...So well, I can't meet them that often because only Pilar (my sister) and me were in the same Faculty, the rest studied Laws so we only get together every 3 or 4 months...but really I love them, they mean so much for me, we've been together for so long.
Daniel was one of my brothers, so when Pilar called me to tell me he passed away I was shocked, I mean we kind of expected it, because 2 or 3 years ago he had surgery to remove a brain tumor...and cancer is really difficult to get rid off so even though the doctors said he was fully recovered we had our reservations...she called at lunch hour, there I didn't cry or anything...I even went to my Korean Lesson...but when I returned and asked my boss for permission to leave after and important meeting I had at 6pm I just started crying in my office...I couldn't help it...
I felt so bad because last time the six of us met was on Isaac's (my other brother) Professional Exam (it's an oral exam they make us go through when we finish our bachelor...if you fail you can't get your Diploma, it's a REALLY important event e_e), that was by the end of october...there we planned our Christmas meeting which got postponed to January because my house was not available...So the other 5 of us keep contacting each other as usual, then Christmas and New Year came and Daniel didn't send us a corny text message and we were like 'ok maybe he's having too much fun with his family in Oaxaca' but then the January meeting came and none of us had been able to know where the fuck he was...no one answered at his place and his (real) sister had moved recently so we didn't know her number...and we thought it was too impolite to just GO to his house unnanounced in case he was in the hospital again...we tried to keep the optimism but when we called the place where he was doing his professional practice and were told he hadn't returned we got all paranoid. Pilar contacted a girl who was also our classmate in highschool and who was like Daniel's best friend ever...her name is Gabriela...she told us what we feared, he was in hospital again and not even her had been allowed to visit him...she didn't tell us more and we didn't want to insist, "she must have her reasons" we thought...we didn't know exactly how sick he was but we could assume it was bad with that no-visitors thingy going on since last time he was in the hospital we got him presents and visited many times...
So we waited...
...but as I said, on thursday Pilar called me and told me the news.
That evening after we all got out of our jobs we went to the Wake...Isaac was the first to arrive, and since Elsie (our mother) is not working yet she bought the floral arrangment to present to Daniel's family in our name. Pilar and I arrived together after she got out of her job interview and Ricardo (step-father) was the last one to get there...It was so painful, also out of the 6 of us I was the crybaby along with Daniel, so watching the others being totally broken made me feel so...useless, because I couldn't even comfort them, the 4 of them who were at Law's school shared even more time together than with Pilar and me, so their bond was even deeper, Isaac specially was very affected, they were the closests. I have never seen him cry before you know? nor Pilar...
The five of us were there just crying and holding each other...us girls couldn't even look at the coffin, we were not that brave...and when we left we tried to say something to ease the pain of his parents but really, how can you bear losing your son when he was just 23 years old?
The next day was the burial but only Pilar and Elsie could make it, so they went to the cementery representing our whole family.
*~*~*~*~*
Daniel was nicknamed 'sky'...he was stubborn and never listened when I told him that 'cielo' was translated as 'darling' or 'honey' in the context he was using it...not as sky in the literal meaning ^^U...He was also born in the same period as Pilar and me and usually we would celebrate our birthdays together: 3rd, 5th and 9th of august, we were the Lion babies...he was so into soap operas that he would hang up on you the moment his favorite started, and you'd be left speaking alone...he was the only one who sang rock songs along with me while playing Rockband, and was the 'official' vocalist of the Boys Team...he understood about manga and anime and he was a preppy boy in denial...he nicknamed me 'Miss Baquetona' and was my 'Mister Baquetón' (baquetón/baquetona means lazy person in mexican slang lol) he said we would win that contest for the rest of our lives...he liked to listen to my gadget blabbering along with Isaac...he was the pervy kid out of us 4...he was really useless in house chores...he burnt the meat when we made BBQs...he won all those games related to famous people gossips and TV shows trivias...he was not a pushy Christian, even though he was really devoted he respected the fact that some of us were not too much into religion...he told me he liked my drawings...he was almost going to get his degree...he was such a nice guy...
He knew he was going to die, his father told us he insisted a lot of wanting to go to Oaxaca in december holidays to say goodbye to his cousins, his father tought he was crazy but agreed, so they went, and he said his goodbyes...he was in the hospital since january 3rd...and he suffered a lot, he even pretended to be asleep so they would leave him alone and stopped making tests...I guess in a way he knew he couldn't win.
They said he died while singing a christian song.
I'm gonna miss him a lot, he fought all he could, I'm proud of him.
I hope you are in Heaven, by Jesus' side, we won't forget you.
That's my family ♥ (L to R: Pilar, Elsie, Ricardo, me, Daniel and Isaac) it's an old pic...like 4 years ago, before he got sick...
Lately I'm only using this thing to post about bad stuff uh?
I promise I'll try to write fun stuff...or at lest complain less ^^U
I'm going to write a lot, I want to remember everything I can and I'm gonna write it here so long entry will be long, sorry U_U
So maybe some of you remember this friends I always go and play games with, the ones that come to my home in the mountains to have a sleepover? This guys are my 'family'. Really! since Highschool we have been having this going on, our mother, a step-father (because he was not there since the beginning :P) and we were 4 kids...So well, I can't meet them that often because only Pilar (my sister) and me were in the same Faculty, the rest studied Laws so we only get together every 3 or 4 months...but really I love them, they mean so much for me, we've been together for so long.
Daniel was one of my brothers, so when Pilar called me to tell me he passed away I was shocked, I mean we kind of expected it, because 2 or 3 years ago he had surgery to remove a brain tumor...and cancer is really difficult to get rid off so even though the doctors said he was fully recovered we had our reservations...she called at lunch hour, there I didn't cry or anything...I even went to my Korean Lesson...but when I returned and asked my boss for permission to leave after and important meeting I had at 6pm I just started crying in my office...I couldn't help it...
I felt so bad because last time the six of us met was on Isaac's (my other brother) Professional Exam (it's an oral exam they make us go through when we finish our bachelor...if you fail you can't get your Diploma, it's a REALLY important event e_e), that was by the end of october...there we planned our Christmas meeting which got postponed to January because my house was not available...So the other 5 of us keep contacting each other as usual, then Christmas and New Year came and Daniel didn't send us a corny text message and we were like 'ok maybe he's having too much fun with his family in Oaxaca' but then the January meeting came and none of us had been able to know where the fuck he was...no one answered at his place and his (real) sister had moved recently so we didn't know her number...and we thought it was too impolite to just GO to his house unnanounced in case he was in the hospital again...we tried to keep the optimism but when we called the place where he was doing his professional practice and were told he hadn't returned we got all paranoid. Pilar contacted a girl who was also our classmate in highschool and who was like Daniel's best friend ever...her name is Gabriela...she told us what we feared, he was in hospital again and not even her had been allowed to visit him...she didn't tell us more and we didn't want to insist, "she must have her reasons" we thought...we didn't know exactly how sick he was but we could assume it was bad with that no-visitors thingy going on since last time he was in the hospital we got him presents and visited many times...
So we waited...
...but as I said, on thursday Pilar called me and told me the news.
That evening after we all got out of our jobs we went to the Wake...Isaac was the first to arrive, and since Elsie (our mother) is not working yet she bought the floral arrangment to present to Daniel's family in our name. Pilar and I arrived together after she got out of her job interview and Ricardo (step-father) was the last one to get there...It was so painful, also out of the 6 of us I was the crybaby along with Daniel, so watching the others being totally broken made me feel so...useless, because I couldn't even comfort them, the 4 of them who were at Law's school shared even more time together than with Pilar and me, so their bond was even deeper, Isaac specially was very affected, they were the closests. I have never seen him cry before you know? nor Pilar...
The five of us were there just crying and holding each other...us girls couldn't even look at the coffin, we were not that brave...and when we left we tried to say something to ease the pain of his parents but really, how can you bear losing your son when he was just 23 years old?
The next day was the burial but only Pilar and Elsie could make it, so they went to the cementery representing our whole family.
*~*~*~*~*
Daniel was nicknamed 'sky'...he was stubborn and never listened when I told him that 'cielo' was translated as 'darling' or 'honey' in the context he was using it...not as sky in the literal meaning ^^U...He was also born in the same period as Pilar and me and usually we would celebrate our birthdays together: 3rd, 5th and 9th of august, we were the Lion babies...he was so into soap operas that he would hang up on you the moment his favorite started, and you'd be left speaking alone...he was the only one who sang rock songs along with me while playing Rockband, and was the 'official' vocalist of the Boys Team...he understood about manga and anime and he was a preppy boy in denial...he nicknamed me 'Miss Baquetona' and was my 'Mister Baquetón' (baquetón/baquetona means lazy person in mexican slang lol) he said we would win that contest for the rest of our lives...he liked to listen to my gadget blabbering along with Isaac...he was the pervy kid out of us 4...he was really useless in house chores...he burnt the meat when we made BBQs...he won all those games related to famous people gossips and TV shows trivias...he was not a pushy Christian, even though he was really devoted he respected the fact that some of us were not too much into religion...he told me he liked my drawings...he was almost going to get his degree...he was such a nice guy...
He knew he was going to die, his father told us he insisted a lot of wanting to go to Oaxaca in december holidays to say goodbye to his cousins, his father tought he was crazy but agreed, so they went, and he said his goodbyes...he was in the hospital since january 3rd...and he suffered a lot, he even pretended to be asleep so they would leave him alone and stopped making tests...I guess in a way he knew he couldn't win.
They said he died while singing a christian song.
I'm gonna miss him a lot, he fought all he could, I'm proud of him.
I hope you are in Heaven, by Jesus' side, we won't forget you.
That's my family ♥ (L to R: Pilar, Elsie, Ricardo, me, Daniel and Isaac) it's an old pic...like 4 years ago, before he got sick...
Lately I'm only using this thing to post about bad stuff uh?
I promise I'll try to write fun stuff...or at lest complain less ^^U