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February 17, 2005
"Thank you for being you"
I haven’t seen Mike since we were at CMU together, just after high school. We kept in touch for a while after I transferred to WMU, but eventually lost track of each other.
When I saw him listed on Classmates.com several years later, I paid the stupid membership fee just so I could send him an email. Unfortunately, he hadn’t updated his profile recently, and the email address was bad. Gah!
Then a year or so later, he contacted me through Classmates.com. His email said something like, “pretty silly of me to pay the stupid membership fee just so I could send you an email.” I said, “not really!”
Anyhow…Mike made high school bearable for me. He was a true friend. He was always there to listen to my petty problems. He was never swayed by the fickle passions of popularity. He knew who he was even then. He was real; he was himself, even in an environment of constant pressure to conform.
We sat together a lot of the time in the classes we shared – the teachers had a tendency to assign seating by last name (though I would have gladly sat with him anyway). I’m so fortunate to have had him in my life for so long.
When I heard the news yesterday, I bawled for about an hour. I didn’t have time to make arrangements to be there for the service today in Athens, Georgia. But I’m comforted by the belief that he’s not really gone, just in a higher dimension, one with no illness or suffering. We are all One, and we are never really separated from each other, even in death. We will miss his voice, his humor, his cleverness…but he will always be with us.
Many thanks to Lady Crumpet for setting up this memorial site. It helps tremendously with the grieving process to know how much he was loved and how he touched so many lives.
I love you Mike, even if you did have any mention of Billy Joel banned from your blog. Thank you for being you.
Tiffany
One to Many. Originally posted here and kindly shared here.
Posted at February 17, 2005 08:51 AM
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