Death

December 13, 2011 - Friendship - Tagged: death - 5 comments

It’s the only guaranteed fact of life.

I have just learned that a woman with whom I went to high school has passed away due to cancer. We were acquaintances, not friends. I remember her smile, her gentleness and her crazy beautiful milk-coloured skin.

I am in some kind of shock, because she is the first of my graduating class to pass, and she is too young.
This is just. She is too fucking young. We are too young.
We are too young. We are too young. We are too young.

RIP, Barbara.

5 thoughts on “Death”

Austin Lisa December 14, 2011 at 10:22 am

so sorry to hear about this. i can understand your shock. my brother- in-law passed away unexpectedly a couple of years ago in his sleep. it was an aneurysm and he was only 32. the truth, i suppose, is that no one is too young and that makes life all the more precious. xoxo

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One Female Canuck December 14, 2011 at 2:52 pm

What a devastating loss for you and your family, Lisa. It seems unimaginable…
Many of us lost a very close friend a couple of years after high school, also to cancer. That was brutal.
But this. I couldn’t get to sleep last night because I kept seeing her face, in the high school hallway in my head. It was yesterday. I am just having trouble reconciling this entire thing.

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Rebecca December 17, 2011 at 12:58 pm

Hugs for you, my love

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Ben H December 22, 2011 at 1:25 pm

I hear you (loud and clear, believe me!) but the sad truth is she isn’t the first. People from our class passed in HS, Shannon, for example, I don’t think saw 18 years of age and suffered at the same fate as Barb. All this not to correct you, but to echo the fact that it is too young and Barb deserved better. It always breaks my heart to hear this type of news…

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One Female Canuck December 22, 2011 at 2:13 pm

Hugs taken and squeezed, Rebecca. Thank you.

Hi Ben.
I was thinking of Shannon, actually, all last week. I couldn’t agree with you more — it is heart break through and through.

I hope that you’re well and safe. Your family is beautiful, and I’m happy to have reconnected after so many years 🙂

Much respect (and thank you for reading, and commenting…)

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