Sean Fox Fraser...
On June 13, 2008 a wonderful man tragically left this world. He died in a single car accident on his way home from a performance. I have so much to pour out about this and I don't really know where to start...
Sean was our class valedictorian. He was the most popular guy in our class, with good reason. He was nice to everyone, it didn't matter who you were or which clique you belonged to. He was intelligent, funny, on the football team, in the band, on the stage in drama. You name it, he could do it. This guy had talent pouring out of his ears.
I was never in his close circle of friends, but I feel as though I knew his pretty well. We had a lot of the same classes together and a few different extra-curricular activites. We had Music together and so also had English,MRE, Gym, and a few others for the better part of five years. I remember him especially from music, as music was his passion. He could play every instrument in the room. I remember he used to drive me nuts on the bus because he constantly sang Pearl Jam, whom I don't especially care for. Even back then he was awesome.
I hadn't seen him since Vanier, and even then it was just in brief passing. I hadn't thought about him much until I joined Facebook and found our entire graduating class on it. It turns out that he'd become a moderately successful musician. I had been meaning to ask him if he had a cd for sale, but I didn't get to in time.
A day hasn't passed since he died that I haven't thought about him. A man that I wasn't even good friends with and hadn't seen in 10 years. I don't really know why his passing has affected me so. He just was so nice, so full of potential, so young, and then gone in an instant. Forever. I've had my share of loved ones die, so I don't have this naive sense that we all live forever. But never have I known someone who was my age that died. My age. I guess that hit me like a ton of bricks. He was also an only child. As a mother of two beautiful children, I cannot fathom how his parents feel. My heart breaks for them. To think of losing a child.... it makes me sick to my stomach and gives me nightmares.
I am so thankful to be connected to all my old friends and my family through FB. Lame, I know. I've gotten to see so many pictures and videos because of it. Gotten to reacquaint with people I thought I'd never see or talk to again. Someone posted a video of Sean and his guitar. It was a song I'd never heard before. I've watched it over and over because I think its beautiful. I had looked in vain for it on the web. I have come to find out it is an original song that he wrote for the love of his life, Karine. It's called Santa Karina. It hadn't dawned on me that he wrote it himself. He was known more for his "big acoustic swamp rock". I didn't realize he could write this kind of song as well. What do I know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvTwWAbitgo&feature=related
I needed to share my feelings with someone. I felt as though I couldn't really talk about him with his close friends because I was never one of them. The people who knew him about as well as I did just don't seem to be as broken up about it as I am. So I thought I would come here and pour some things out, and share Sean and his talent with people who never knew him at all. It seems that it is all I can really do now. This is his myspace page http://www.myspace.com/foxfraser where you can listen to some more of his music.
Thanks for everything Sean, you were the nicest guy I've ever known. The world is a darker place without you.
Love,
Amanda
Sean was our class valedictorian. He was the most popular guy in our class, with good reason. He was nice to everyone, it didn't matter who you were or which clique you belonged to. He was intelligent, funny, on the football team, in the band, on the stage in drama. You name it, he could do it. This guy had talent pouring out of his ears.
I was never in his close circle of friends, but I feel as though I knew his pretty well. We had a lot of the same classes together and a few different extra-curricular activites. We had Music together and so also had English,MRE, Gym, and a few others for the better part of five years. I remember him especially from music, as music was his passion. He could play every instrument in the room. I remember he used to drive me nuts on the bus because he constantly sang Pearl Jam, whom I don't especially care for. Even back then he was awesome.
I hadn't seen him since Vanier, and even then it was just in brief passing. I hadn't thought about him much until I joined Facebook and found our entire graduating class on it. It turns out that he'd become a moderately successful musician. I had been meaning to ask him if he had a cd for sale, but I didn't get to in time.
A day hasn't passed since he died that I haven't thought about him. A man that I wasn't even good friends with and hadn't seen in 10 years. I don't really know why his passing has affected me so. He just was so nice, so full of potential, so young, and then gone in an instant. Forever. I've had my share of loved ones die, so I don't have this naive sense that we all live forever. But never have I known someone who was my age that died. My age. I guess that hit me like a ton of bricks. He was also an only child. As a mother of two beautiful children, I cannot fathom how his parents feel. My heart breaks for them. To think of losing a child.... it makes me sick to my stomach and gives me nightmares.
I am so thankful to be connected to all my old friends and my family through FB. Lame, I know. I've gotten to see so many pictures and videos because of it. Gotten to reacquaint with people I thought I'd never see or talk to again. Someone posted a video of Sean and his guitar. It was a song I'd never heard before. I've watched it over and over because I think its beautiful. I had looked in vain for it on the web. I have come to find out it is an original song that he wrote for the love of his life, Karine. It's called Santa Karina. It hadn't dawned on me that he wrote it himself. He was known more for his "big acoustic swamp rock". I didn't realize he could write this kind of song as well. What do I know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvTwWAbitgo&feature=related
I needed to share my feelings with someone. I felt as though I couldn't really talk about him with his close friends because I was never one of them. The people who knew him about as well as I did just don't seem to be as broken up about it as I am. So I thought I would come here and pour some things out, and share Sean and his talent with people who never knew him at all. It seems that it is all I can really do now. This is his myspace page http://www.myspace.com/foxfraser where you can listen to some more of his music.
Thanks for everything Sean, you were the nicest guy I've ever known. The world is a darker place without you.
Love,
Amanda