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SecretMethod70 · 04-26-2003, 05:30 AM

Yeah, so, uh, I've lived a pretty good life so far. I won't pretend to have anything comparable to most here. A friend of mine in HS died though of some sort of meningitis - I forget the exact kind. Basically, one day she didn't feel so good after school, the next day she was in the hospital, and the next she was dead. Pretty surreal actually. It's interesting because, while I know a lot of people relate diffeernt songs to different events and such, this is the onyl event in my life which I relate any songs to - a couple in fact. Of course, I suppose that's fitting since I knew her through the various school choral functions.

I suppose my great grandmother's death is fairly high up there as well but I was pretty young - in 7th grade - and she was really old so I wasn't taken by surprise in any way at all. I was a bit in the sense that she had been in the hospital a few times before and always came out in the end, and this time was different. So, while I didn't expect it, it awsn't really shocking. To me, the worst thing about that was that it wasn't until later that I realized how much more I wish I would have asked her about her life and everything - granted, she told me a lot of stories from when she was growing up and such, but I could have found out so much more had I been interested when I was younger.

EDIT: oh, I haven't really had to deal with this yet for the most part, but one of my uncles fell off of a roof a few years ago and is now paralyzed (I think from the waist down). He lives in Georgia and I typically only see him every couple years, and I haven't seen him since a few years before that happened, so, like i said, it's not something I've really had to deal with yet. I just recently saw a picture of him for the first time since then (my dad flew down for one of my cousin's weddings) but even with that it cut off just before you could see the wheelchair, so, in the classic I-haven't-seen-it-so-it-doesn't-exist sense, I haven't really had to deal with that yet.

04-26-2003, 05:30 AM	#19 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	Yeah, so, uh, I've lived a pretty good life so far. I won't pretend to have anything comparable to most here. A friend of mine in HS died though of some sort of meningitis - I forget the exact kind. Basically, one day she didn't feel so good after school, the next day she was in the hospital, and the next she was dead. Pretty surreal actually. It's interesting because, while I know a lot of people relate diffeernt songs to different events and such, this is the onyl event in my life which I relate any songs to - a couple in fact. Of course, I suppose that's fitting since I knew her through the various school choral functions. I suppose my great grandmother's death is fairly high up there as well but I was pretty young - in 7th grade - and she was really old so I wasn't taken by surprise in any way at all. I was a bit in the sense that she had been in the hospital a few times before and always came out in the end, and this time was different. So, while I didn't expect it, it awsn't really shocking. To me, the worst thing about that was that it wasn't until later that I realized how much more I wish I would have asked her about her life and everything - granted, she told me a lot of stories from when she was growing up and such, but I could have found out so much more had I been interested when I was younger. EDIT: oh, I haven't really had to deal with this yet for the most part, but one of my uncles fell off of a roof a few years ago and is now paralyzed (I think from the waist down). He lives in Georgia and I typically only see him every couple years, and I haven't seen him since a few years before that happened, so, like i said, it's not something I've really had to deal with yet. I just recently saw a picture of him for the first time since then (my dad flew down for one of my cousin's weddings) but even with that it cut off just before you could see the wheelchair, so, in the classic I-haven't-seen-it-so-it-doesn't-exist sense, I haven't really had to deal with that yet. __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling Last edited by SecretMethod70; 04-26-2003 at 05:33 AM..