Today I got one of the most incredibly sad phone calls of my life. I found out one of my near and dearest friends from back in Chicago had passed. The sudden shock of how he passed is just as sad as losing him all together. Writing this blog post isn't making it any realer than I thought it would be. I had the great pleasure in knowing him for roughly 8 years of my life.
Unfortunately life works in mysterious ways. Sometimes to teach us lessons and sometimes to only teach us that life is truly unfair. I will never know why the world took away such a phenomenally sweet and kind hearted person like him and I will never be able to bring him back. I do know that I will always have the amazing memories that I shared with him.
Life has a horrible way of working sometimes and I can genuinely say I have never been so confused on how it works. I know that he is looking down at us and having the time of his life up wherever he is. I'm sure the view from up there beats the hell out of whatever views we have down here. I have never been a religious person but believing in an afterlife is really the only thing that is getting me through a tough time like this.
I once heard an amazing quote that has stuck with me forever. "Death is a scary thing, but not living your life is even scarier." Life is such a fragile and short thing. My good friend was only 23 when he passed. The last time we spoke we joked about how "old" we felt being 22 and 23 years old. In retrospect, we are clearly not old. Either way, living my life to the fullest is all I can do after hearing such terrible news. I will always love and miss my good friend Bryan Christian. He touched the lives of so many people and my life would never had been the same had I not met him.
