
the path to happiness is so narrow that two can not walk on it until they become one
Life, its a strange, unexplored enigma. Sometimes, you have a long life. While other times, its short. You never know when it will be taken from you, or a family member, or friends. Recently, it was taken from a friend of mine who was like a little brother to me.
He was only five years old, I barely knew him too. I had been talking with him for only a few days, however he was like the little brother I never had. It started while I was talking with his cousin, Allyson. We were explaining the parties we had been having that day, and he called for her to come. When she came back, he followed and asked to talk with me. So we let him, and he and I connected instantly.
I was so excited to have a kid who was like a little brother, someone who’d look up to me, someone I’d watch grow and learn right before my eyes. He and I talked the next day, since he’d forgotten his teddy bear at Allyson’s. We had fun talking again, and we said how I could come help Allyson with baby-sitting all of her cousins since they’d be coming over to her house. Then, the next day, Allyson and I were talking, and she said that he was in the hospital. He had been in a car crash, due to a drunk driver. The drunk drove right into were he had been sitting, and he had lost too much blood. This was painful even for me to hear, seeing as the day before I talked with him.
Suffering, pain, and hatred. All those emotions were going through me. Not only did I have to deal with him in the hospital, but someone new joined the picture. To leave this part simply, she lied to teachers, deceived my friend, and is trying to use my secret against me. However, this isn’t the point. He was in the hospital, and it had been decided. They had to let him die. He already flat-lined three times and is using the iron lung. That completely devastated my friend and me. The last conversation I had with him was the day before he died. We talked about how I’m going to miss him, but he said that I would be with him, no matter what happened. I felt that he was as strong as a bull then. I was proud of him, and he is going to be remembered, forever. He had been sad, that we couldn’t meet face to face.
June 7th 2004 through April 8th 2010. That was the length of his life. Its cruel, when you think about it, that he dies, while the man who was stupid enough to get behind the wheel while under the influence, lives. He said he’d always be with Allyson and me. We feel his presence with us, and I plan to keep to my promise I made to him before he died. I promised to keep his cousin, Allyson, safe. However, I know, that this isn’t the end of our friendship, just a new, secret beginning. Josh and I will always be one.