Some 10 years back I tried to reconnect with a friend of mine that I had been thinking about. We weren’t super close but he was a cool dude that I really enjoyed hanging out with. I tried to friend him on Facebook but he never accepted.
I then friended a common acquaintance who didn’t remember me - I explained that I was Mike’s friend and the three of us had hung out a few times back in the day. He still didn’t remember me but he said, “you know Mike died a couple years ago, right?”
Shocked, I came to find he died suddenly from a ruptured brain aneurysm during finals week at his final year of college. He was only 24. That one still haunts me - he was a really cool dude and super talented artist that I have no doubt would have gone on to do great things.
