Yet Another Tragedy *sigh*
Wow you guys this has got to be the worst beginning to a year I can ever remember. Last year was awful too, there's something about January that just never seems to go right. It seems this year something went wrong and all of the things that could possibly go wrong actually are. I was already feeling much better after the crappy week I had last week, until today that is. My cousin texted me after not hearing from her for about a month and a half and out of the blue she tells me something about how horrible everythings going that first Brad and then Heath. I looked at the text and I was like....wait Heath? So of course I texted her but she didn't get back to me fast enough. I put the tv on E! and sure enough they had the breaking news scrolling at the bottom of the screen that he had died. Until I finished reading it I was literally in such shock I didn't move and I just kept staring and reading over and over. It was as if I had stepped into an alternate universe because that didn't make sense to me. Not Heath Ledger, it had to be wrong, it had to be a mistake.
After that I was texting a few of my friends back and forth and all of us were the same, just utterly shocked. All day I was crying off and on. I'd be okay one minute then I'd just cry again. I mean sure I've never met him before or anything, but I grew up with his movies. He held a special place in my heart and he was one of the few actors I knew was going to be one of the greats like Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and all of them. He had the potential and this is such a tragedy. What makes it worse is that they're saying it was accidental, which means it could have been prevented. Why Heath...just why? Brad Renfro was a great loss too, don't get me wrong, but he was struggling with the drug addiction. Heath's came out of nowhere. I didn't believe it until they showed footage on E! News of them wheeling his body out of his apartment. It was just depressing. My heart goes out to his family and his daughter, especially his daughter because she won't get to know what a great talent her dad was. At least he'll live on in the great movies he left us. How ironic that The Order was on tv the other day... I'm still going to see The Dark Knight, it'll just be a weird experience knowing he's gone, but still so alive in that movie.
A couple of my friends said these things happen in 3's which I hope they don't. I can't take anyone else being lost. It's just too much.
I'll always remember him from 10 Things I Hate About You the most, because that was one of my generations biggest movies and the first time I ever laid eyes on him.
Heath Ledger
1979-2008
After that I was texting a few of my friends back and forth and all of us were the same, just utterly shocked. All day I was crying off and on. I'd be okay one minute then I'd just cry again. I mean sure I've never met him before or anything, but I grew up with his movies. He held a special place in my heart and he was one of the few actors I knew was going to be one of the greats like Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and all of them. He had the potential and this is such a tragedy. What makes it worse is that they're saying it was accidental, which means it could have been prevented. Why Heath...just why? Brad Renfro was a great loss too, don't get me wrong, but he was struggling with the drug addiction. Heath's came out of nowhere. I didn't believe it until they showed footage on E! News of them wheeling his body out of his apartment. It was just depressing. My heart goes out to his family and his daughter, especially his daughter because she won't get to know what a great talent her dad was. At least he'll live on in the great movies he left us. How ironic that The Order was on tv the other day... I'm still going to see The Dark Knight, it'll just be a weird experience knowing he's gone, but still so alive in that movie.
A couple of my friends said these things happen in 3's which I hope they don't. I can't take anyone else being lost. It's just too much.
I'll always remember him from 10 Things I Hate About You the most, because that was one of my generations biggest movies and the first time I ever laid eyes on him.
Heath Ledger
1979-2008