I just attended my high school best friend’s funeral.
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I just attended my high school best friend’s funeral. He left a wife and two kids. He ran the teeball league for the county. Completely out of the blue he had a thing with his aorta and he’s just gone now. I freaking hate death. I’ve never dealt with it well. I believe in the afterlife. I believe in God. But I also really struggle with the idea that a person can spend their life learning and growing, mastering skills, building relationships, becoming an incredible person, and then it just stops.
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I just attended my high school best friend’s funeral. He left a wife and two kids. He ran the teeball league for the county. Completely out of the blue he had a thing with his aorta and he’s just gone now. I freaking hate death. I’ve never dealt with it well. I believe in the afterlife. I believe in God. But I also really struggle with the idea that a person can spend their life learning and growing, mastering skills, building relationships, becoming an incredible person, and then it just stops.
The futility, powerlessness, and absurdity of it all is really tough to reconcile. In literature, there are no meaningless deaths. In reality, we all die sometime and often our death is random. I think the trick is ascribing value to it. Choosing to learn and grow. Knowing there is more than this life is comforting in the long run, but right now there is just loss and injustice
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The futility, powerlessness, and absurdity of it all is really tough to reconcile. In literature, there are no meaningless deaths. In reality, we all die sometime and often our death is random. I think the trick is ascribing value to it. Choosing to learn and grow. Knowing there is more than this life is comforting in the long run, but right now there is just loss and injustice
Anyway, things are hard sometimes and I don’t believe in pretending. I also don’t like trauma-dumping on the internet.
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Anyway, things are hard sometimes and I don’t believe in pretending. I also don’t like trauma-dumping on the internet.
@corykerr I’m sorry for your loss, Cory. It’s even harder when it’s surprising and family is left behind. Losing people we’ve cared about it never easy. Expressing your truth in hopes it reaches others who need it is a good use of trauma-dumping. Reached me. Thank you.
