It started around 4am or so, I woke up just feeling bad. Our weather conditions have started to drastically change and everyone is sick. I rarely get sick but this one caught me...
After not really sleeping, I get up and mess around on Facebook and see an unusual message on my friends page... It turns out on he killed himself on August 24th....
I've never lost someone that close to me. He lived in NC so I didn't get to see him much, but he absolutely one of my boys. I don't cry often, but yesterday being sick, being shocked, it hit me hard.
I had so so so much respect for this dude. You ever meet someone who Charisma is through the roof? That was him. He was incredibly talented. He was the most talented person I've ever met. He was in music, a producer that was signed and worked with a bunch of B stars. He then self taught himself not just graphic design, but web development. Not the simple HTML or CSS either, thats where he started but I watched him grow so quickly. Within 2 years of starting, he landed a good ob in the field without ever finishing HS.
Dan was so incredibly gifted and genuinely kind.
He gave up music for his girl. He was working in ATL and she wasn't ready to leave home. Which is how he found graphic design. He was just a creative person, and had to have an outlet to illustrate it. It seemed to be going well for him... Until the last month him and his girl were going through a separation and he was taking it hard.
I've spent a ton of time talking to him. He told me he had suicidal thoughts. He told me. And now he's gone. There were so many signs now that I look back on it. He told me he loved me, and ya know thats awkward when a guy tells a guy that. I just laughed it off. But he knew it was coming. I ignored it.
I could see how bad he was hurting, but I really never thought this would happen. It was ignorance. I just couldn't imagine a world without him in. If I had to bet on anyone I know making a big difference in the world, it would of been him. The world needs people like this, and now he is gone....
25. Charismatic. Talented. Kind. and now dead.
It's hard to comprehend. I talked to him, and I did what I could to try to help him turn the tide of this depression. But I missed the opportunity. I begged him to go on vacation with my group of friends. I sent him money even as a "house warming gift" but really I just wanted him to have no excuse of not coming to the lake. It turns out the reason I never heard from him was because he is gone...
Damn this hurts. I cannot imagine what its like to lose your wife or closest friend.
I live by the saying, Best thing in life is Life, but his is gone.
Miss you like crazy man.
After not really sleeping, I get up and mess around on Facebook and see an unusual message on my friends page... It turns out on he killed himself on August 24th....
I've never lost someone that close to me. He lived in NC so I didn't get to see him much, but he absolutely one of my boys. I don't cry often, but yesterday being sick, being shocked, it hit me hard.
I had so so so much respect for this dude. You ever meet someone who Charisma is through the roof? That was him. He was incredibly talented. He was the most talented person I've ever met. He was in music, a producer that was signed and worked with a bunch of B stars. He then self taught himself not just graphic design, but web development. Not the simple HTML or CSS either, thats where he started but I watched him grow so quickly. Within 2 years of starting, he landed a good ob in the field without ever finishing HS.
Dan was so incredibly gifted and genuinely kind.
He gave up music for his girl. He was working in ATL and she wasn't ready to leave home. Which is how he found graphic design. He was just a creative person, and had to have an outlet to illustrate it. It seemed to be going well for him... Until the last month him and his girl were going through a separation and he was taking it hard.
I've spent a ton of time talking to him. He told me he had suicidal thoughts. He told me. And now he's gone. There were so many signs now that I look back on it. He told me he loved me, and ya know thats awkward when a guy tells a guy that. I just laughed it off. But he knew it was coming. I ignored it.
I could see how bad he was hurting, but I really never thought this would happen. It was ignorance. I just couldn't imagine a world without him in. If I had to bet on anyone I know making a big difference in the world, it would of been him. The world needs people like this, and now he is gone....
25. Charismatic. Talented. Kind. and now dead.
It's hard to comprehend. I talked to him, and I did what I could to try to help him turn the tide of this depression. But I missed the opportunity. I begged him to go on vacation with my group of friends. I sent him money even as a "house warming gift" but really I just wanted him to have no excuse of not coming to the lake. It turns out the reason I never heard from him was because he is gone...
Damn this hurts. I cannot imagine what its like to lose your wife or closest friend.
I live by the saying, Best thing in life is Life, but his is gone.
Miss you like crazy man.