Comedown

[lacrosseboy]

And then that's when you're reminded that life isn't always so enjoyable. The laughter fades and you remember just how frivolous most of what we go through each day really is

Comments

[andreamarie]

Oh Aaron... my heart goes out to you and your friend. I know all too well the feeling of losing a loved one. I still have fresh emotional wounds from my grandfather, so I can relate.

Life is precious. Family is precious. Friends are precious. I think that people take too much for granted and then one day it is too late. I tell my family how much I love and appreciate them often. I send little notes in the mail to my friends out of the blue telling them how much they mean to me. It's just my way.

[lacrosseboy]

For me, it's just kinda... I don't know how to describe. I hurt for Dusty, certainly. My pain is for his pain. I can remember spending the night over there and how pleasant his father was. He was a good, kind man who was a good father and husband. Why couldn't someone on Death Row have been taken in his place? It's not fair!

"Your way" sounds mighty fine to me. You are a person loved by many and appreciated by even more, I can tell.

[andreamarie]

Gosh, it isn't fair. Not at all. And I've often thought the same thing... why can't someone who has lived a shameful life be taken instead of someone good and honest? I don't know if you're a religious person... I'm not the most religious by far, but I do think that there's a reason for everything. We may not understand the reason, but it's there.

I like to think that I am loved and appreciated.

[lacrosseboy]

I'm at odds with exactly what I believe at the moment. Something about a quarter-life crisis. But even in my moments lacking clarity, I do still think there is purpose behind the path of life.

[andreamarie]

Well, you have plenty of time to figure out what you believe.

And I just feel like there has to be a purpose behind what happens in life.

[lacrosseboy]

I agree. Without purpose, life becomes much more scary.