I barely knew M better than you, if at all. I probably last spoke to them 5 or more years ago.
And yet, as soon as I read they had passed away on FB, I knew why. I immediately started searching back through the posts in the vain hope of finding out it was just a physical illness, or a random accident, only to see that it wasn't.
In retrospect, it feels inevitable that it would end this way. Perhaps that's why it struck so hard.
It's funny, realising that almost all of my memories of them are well more than a decade old, and I barely knew them then. And yet, my heart aches for them, and most especially for their family and friends.
Anyone's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Humanity; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
I hope and pray that where-ever M may have gone onto, the burden they struggled with has been lifted from them.
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Date: 2014-05-20 01:39 pm (UTC)And yet, as soon as I read they had passed away on FB, I knew why. I immediately started searching back through the posts in the vain hope of finding out it was just a physical illness, or a random accident, only to see that it wasn't.
In retrospect, it feels inevitable that it would end this way. Perhaps that's why it struck so hard.
It's funny, realising that almost all of my memories of them are well more than a decade old, and I barely knew them then. And yet, my heart aches for them, and most especially for their family and friends.
Anyone's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Humanity;
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
I hope and pray that where-ever M may have gone onto, the burden they struggled with has been lifted from them.