Sometime last week I re-blogged this photo simply because I liked the quote underneath the bottle cap. It held no significance to me, just truth. Scrolling through my posts on tumblr today I noticed the picture again, only this time, the magnitude of it’s significance nearly stole the breath from my chest.
Here I am, so engulfed in my mellow dramatic complaints about how much I hate this town, how abnoxious boys can be and the lack of respect I receive sometimes. Not paying even the slightest bit of attention to the fact that I am healthy, breathing, alive.
Prior to me rediscovering this picture, I heard the heartbreaking news that a girl I’ve known since elementary school, passed away this evening. In the same moment that I express my naive, selfish emotions..She was in a coma fighting for her life. (SN. Thanks to all the assholes back home who failed to contact me and let me find out over facebook. Dicks.)
She was 20 years young, with a smile that could put a twinkle in any one’s eye, a sense of humor and laugh that was always contagious (no matter what your mood happened to be or how your day was going) and looks that could kill. Such an amazing person who never took the blessings life handed to her for granted. Obviously god needed her much more than we did, but you can’t help but ask…Why?
I am so thankful that I have already scheduled a trip back home this Wednesday. That’s the only place I care to be right now. And during my 5 1/2 hour drive I’ll be making to get there, I am going to seriously reevaluate my outlook on my surroundings, my peers, my life in general. Because even amongst the turmoil, I’m still breathing. I’m young with an incredible family and my entire life ahead of me. that’s really all that matters.
R.I.P. Kristin Magdalein, you were such a sweetheart and you will truely be missed baby girl. Only the good die young, and you were the best.
