Worst Day EVER

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Worst Day EVER#0

Posted: 11/8/04 at 10:37pm

Okay, so today was really NOT a good day. I just need to share. I get to school today, and my teacher tells the class that a tenth grader who goes to my school died yesterday. He was playing basketball with his friends and he collapsed and just...died. EMS couldn't revive him. Then I figured out that he rode my bus. I didn't really know him, but it made it even worsethat I knew who he was. I mean, he was perfectly healthy, on the basketball team and everything, and now he's dead. Not cool at all. So needless to say, that put a damper on the whole day. Personal things also made it the worst day ever, but I won't bore everyone with pointless details. Just needed to get it off my chest.

"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."

Wishes come true, not free.

[Sumofallthings]

re: Worst Day EVER#1

Posted: 11/8/04 at 10:39pm

Listen to some Sondheim. Play "Send In The Clowns" if you need to relax and just think. I'm sorry for your loss it's always difficult to lose anyone you've seen on a daily basis.

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

[Type_A_Tiff]

re: Worst Day EVER#2

Posted: 11/8/04 at 10:42pm

Aww, sometimes Sumofallthings really IS a nice guy?

Hugs to you, EDG! (And you too, Sum. )

"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)

"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater

"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

re: Worst Day EVER#3

Posted: 11/8/04 at 10:48pm

Sum, unfortunately I can't liten to Send in the Clowns. The only Sondheim I have available right now is Into the Woods. But I think I am going to bed anyway.
It just makes you think about your own mortality, though, doesn't it? I mean, it could happen to anyone. Its kind of freaking me out right now.

"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."

Wishes come true, not free.

[Sumofallthings]

re: Worst Day EVER#4

Posted: 11/8/04 at 10:55pm

That's why you've got to shoot higher than you think you can possibly fly. Every day should be about making today count. Don't live for tomorrow. Don't go through high school getting ready for college. Experience life don't just sample it.

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

[OneBlazeOfGlory]

re: Worst Day EVER#5

Posted: 11/8/04 at 11:04pm

Well said, Sum. That is kinda creepy. I mean, I'm in 10th grade and I run cross country/track. Who's to say if one of these days I just keel over running? We just don't know, and that's where the whole 'no day but today' philosophy comes in. I'm really sorry that happened & I'll keep him and everyone he knew in my prayers

Here in this cold white room tied up to these machines, it's hard to imagine life as it used to be. Laughing, screaming, tumbling queen... Like the most amazing light show you've ever seen. Whirling, swirling, never blue... How could you go and die? What a selfish thing to do... RIP Jason

[SNAFU]

re: Worst Day EVER#6

Posted: 11/9/04 at 11:33am

Peraonally, I think that just keeling over and dying while you are doing something you enjoy doing is probably the best possible death! Much better then languishing away in a hospital bed!
It is unfortunate that someone so young had to pass away. We each are given no guarentee as to how long we have on this Earth. All we can do is enjoy the day, love those around us and live for and in the moment (it is ALL we have).

Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

[CJR]

re: Worst Day EVER#7

Posted: 11/9/04 at 12:27pm

Im so sorry for your loss Elphie. Even though you didn't really know him, it effects you more than you realize.

2 kids from my graduating class have died.... One while we were still in school (junior year, actually). I wasn't friends with him, but everyone in school knew him. The school as a whole (teachers and students) was a mess for days. He was only 17.

The other student was a neighbor and aquaintance of mine. He passed out while driving to work one morning the year after graduation... wrapped his car around a telephone pole. He was 19.

It's so sad to see kids die so young, but I do believe there's a "master plan" for everyone. My prayers are with his family.

"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA

If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

re: Worst Day EVER#8

Posted: 11/9/04 at 4:23pm

You guys just made me cry.

"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."

Wishes come true, not free.

[jacobtsf]

re: Worst Day EVER#9

Posted: 11/9/04 at 4:45pm

One of the local schools in the Poconos has had 6 suicides since September. One of the kids was one of my friends best-friends. Many teens here are very worried that it will happen again.

David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel

[judy_in_disguise]

re: Worst Day EVER#10

Posted: 11/9/04 at 4:56pm

In my hometown of 30 000, we have had 21 young deaths (between the ages of 14 and 23) within a year.
All tragic deaths- car/ train/ boat accidents, suicides, even hypothermia and group suicides.
There are only three highschools in my hometown so each school experienced a great loss, as did the community as a whole.
This all happened as I was moving away. I heard the last stories from friends over the phone. I felt so distanced but so a part of it- the boy who played Joseph when I played Mary in the kindergarten Christmas pageant died the day I moved to university. I still don't understand how such a small town had so many young deaths in the course of a year.
It really shook us up. From all of it, we definitely grew as a community. There were no strangers anymore. You can't be when you attend that many funerals together.
My prayers are with you and your community ElphieDefies, I know how hard it is for a community to deal with.