Mortality

[blueerica]

I've probably attended three times as many funerals as I have weddings, probably more. I had the misfortune of friends (yes, multiple, in separate incidents) dying while in their high school years. I've lost people since high school, and this is all the more unfortunate considering I lived in the middle of no where, and graduated with 70 people.


I've lost friends I've made since, but I don't let it hurt the same way anymore. Few things remain absolutes for me, but Kevin Smith in his myspace blog wrote something last week that holds so true.

Friends - there's only one absolute in the world: the grave waits for us all.

And I'm not saddened by death, but comforted in it. To know that my time on this Earth is not eternal is all the more reason I need to be living it now. We're just blips, or to quote Kansas: All we are is dust in the wind. It gives me resolution that in my tiny existence I need to capture in it as much as I can. That's comforting in it's own way. I have a mission, and I have since I was 14, when my best friend Tim died. What kills me are the times I forget my "mission."

But yeah, I'm 28, and I don't have enough fingers to count just high school friends that have passed on. Sadly, I'm missing my 10 year reunion...