have you ever lost a friend?
By allamgirl
@allamgirl (2140)
Philippines
May 11, 2010 5:38am CST
yesterday, when i was going thru facebook statuses, i found out that a schoolmate of mine died. i wasn't really close with him because even if we were on the same high school batch, he was on a different campus. but i got to hang out with him once last year and after that we would occasionally talk on facebook. i was schocked when i found out yesterday. i knew that he got sick late last year but the last time we talked, he said he was okay and everything was fine already. so it came as a surprise yesterday. i've lost two friends due to car accident two years before and i spent more time with those friends more than i spent time with him. still, this news made me feel so sad.
how about you, have you ever lost a friend to death?
rip christian emmanuel mendoza, you will be missed. i know you had the time of your life even if you are gone too soon!
2 responses
@good2go2001 (915)
• United States
12 Jul 10
I have lost a very close friend and even though its been several years it always feels just like yesterday. The pain of the loss never goes away but i know he would have wanted me to not be sad and to live myllife fully just as he did. I think its the shock but also knowing that person will never call ya up on the phone or will never meet you in person again. I hold on to the good memories even though i know it might not be healthy to continue holding on for so long, still the fact is its all i have left of my friend.
@allamgirl (2140)
• Philippines
15 Jul 10
yes, it's the same for me. just a few days ago, i found old newspapers in my locker at the office. when i opened it, i found out that they were two years old and that it was the newspaper the day of my friends' accident. it even had a picture of the wrecked car in the front page. i didn't know that i had it there this whole time.
@clarafied (29)
• Philippines
12 Jul 10
I met a friend online 10 years ago. We kinda communicated for a while through a chat room and later on, lost touch. Only to find each other again last year through Facebook. Later on, to find out we were both sick of the same illness. We sent messages every now and then and early this year, we started to exchange emails about ways to conquer our illness, and some trivias about our lives.
In March, just like you, I received a message saying that she's fine with just a few pains here and there. She said that she tried to avoid talking about the pain because it might depress me - she was in the latter stage and I, at an early stage of the sickness.
At the hospital mid-April, she sent me e-mails through her iPhone. I already know that she was in deep pain. So, I refrained from sending too many e-mails since I didn't want to disturb her.
I remember her telling me those three newest things she bought before she went to the hospital. That was her last e-mail.
She passed away without saying goodbye. But she did so on purpose to leave me with all the strength to continue my own fight.
