More funerals. Great.. What else is new. All I can say is I just found out my local jazz scene has lost someone and I've lost a dear friend... Someone with the potential and showmanship of Miles Davis or Buddy Guy, for his age (he was in his twenties).. I don't know wether to be in tears or what, but the death portion doesn't seem to mean anything to me anymore and this shit is really starting to get to me. Whatever.. guess it doesn't matter. Just... shocking. Too many people are dying too fast. Slow the fuck down, conserve fuel, and don't drink. Thanks..
death is a part of life maybe a final phase, maybe more of a transitional one frankly, we don't really know just focus on the life he had, celibrate the good my friend was hit by a car recently, luckily he only fucked up his leg and a family friend was hit and killed by a bus when I was younger I know it seems relaly devasting when tragic and unavoidable events like these happen but don't worry about the hands life is gonna deal you, just play them as you get them
You probably wouldn't believe me if I said that through the thirteen people I've lost, fourteen, depending on the context, I'm just sick of hearing that sickening and cliche line/speach repetitively. I can understand when you're older, but people don't get angry about it. You've had your life and people are happy for you, but they'll always miss you. Scratch that... sixteen.. I forgot this other girl.. I spoke to her last before she uh, pretty much rowed out into the county reservoir and put a gun in her mouth, when I was fourteen. Then my friend Corey (he was from London, but in my friend's hunt club) ran into a tree around 2am.. had a beer and fell asleep. Those two were kind of the first ones that started the uh.. two year chain, I guess I could call it. The saddest one was a friend whose mom worked with my mom. His mom didn't accept the fact that he was a homosexual, so he jumped off of the top row of the football stadium. Sadly, the majority of the deaths are either involving a vehicle or suicide.. Either way, It's that he just starting cutting an album... Believe he just got accepted into the University of Miami... Went to school with him, he played in a few things I took part in. Just lotsa unfinished business, you know. So much of it. That's all I'm left with. I just hope one day, I'll be able to play catch up... It's just that all of these incidents really don't make me feel my age. I never really have, to be quite honest. I really don't feel bothered at all by any of it, I'm just sick and tired of all the crap... you know.
it does get pretty annoying hearing the same shit but that doesn't make it any less true in fact, that's why you hear it so much, cause it is true my dad died a little over 40, and where as that's a lot older, it's still certainly not old he was starting to take better care of himself starting to take his insulin and watch his diet, starting to get a handle on his drinking, and he just graduated top of his calss in Triangle Tech's machinist program, he was going to get a job that was $12 an hour plus benefits right before he was diagnosed with diabetes actually but he was still working on a few independent business ventures, not just living off of the wellfare (he was having trouble getting disability for some stupid reason) and I know that it seems that the younger they are, the more life they lost but that's a stupid way to look at it do you think he really gives a shit about that right now?
In highschool I lost 6 friends in the same week. In two different accidents. It is really sad because all the boys that survived the first accident where killed in the second one. There is nothing to say but I'm sorry for the loss, there is no explaining or trying to reason it away. I am sorry that you have lost so many people at such a yound age.
If you considered minds like Dr. Walter Reed, Albert Einstein, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Socrates and the like... if they all died at a young age, what would we have today? One person can make quite a bit of benefit for the rest of the world, wether it's entertainment, a message, medicinally, through peace... Personal individuality and the improvements and efficiencies you can create have effects on society.
but can't one's death cause just as much of an effect? picture this: a great jazz artist kid dies, and another jazz kid writes a song expressing his feelings about it, and becomes an overnight sensation if my dad never died, I'd be a totally different person, I can promise you that
Can you? Prove it for me too. Anyway, a life being taken for the sake of someone else composing music is no reason for the death. There was more talent in the person to be expressed at such a young age.
that is not the point I was making at all of course that does not justify his death, nothing can do that, except for the simple fact that people die all I was saying is, one's death is sometimes just as potent as a stimuli as one's life
You arn't making much of a point at all. The point of this thread is to respect the death of someone, not to try and compensate it with saying that "death is a part of life". A life was lost, don't piss all over it by saying death is natural. It is natural, but that doesn't make things any easier.
always has for me and once again, I am not tryign to compensate it at all there is no compensation, there is nothing really to compensate either... and I don't think it's 'pissing on it' at all it's looking at it as what it is how is grieving or bitching about how unfair it is that they died honoring a lost one's life? take them in, learn from them, let them inspire you keep their memory alive within you by letting their lives positively influence your own
Nice Ludwig van/Socrates reference. Points, love. Goddamn, George. Why does this keep happening to you? Shove some death over this way...I know that sounds horrible, but you need a break. Death isn't something that should make you feel numb; it is a part of life, but it's a huge part of life, just like birth. The feeling that it's important and significant gets diluted when it occurs so often, and then it's just fading away from then on out. I wish I could be there for you. Like, there there. You've always got someone to talk to, though, you know that. Take advantage of it, eh? Holy shit, my English teacher just called the house and said I was (and I quote) "awesome and really cool." I hope he wasn't drunk.
I'm sorry George I don't wanna fall in cliché reconforting sentances because sometimes they just make the pain well more painful.. It's not just fair and i'm sorry
hey orsino....if it makes you feel an better....i believe there are those that are too precious to be on this hellacious earth...I pray that he was taken where he was needed. about a month ago, i read this quote that just touched me..... it was from Rev. Run, from RUN-DMC after he lost his newborn baby girl... "We see life in death, and believe in the celebration of life in death...." man....what else can I say
