Thankful for Life

An aquaintance of mine died this morning of Cancer. Most of you didn't know this person and I barely did either. He was in one semester of a creative writing class with me at SVU. I think you get to know someone on a different level when you get to read each others poems and do creative thinking and story writing together. That was the only semester I knew him but he had an infectious goodness and wrote the best poems and the best stories that were uplifting and expressed happiness for life. He was like Dr. Seuss in his poetry and really really creative. He wrote an adorable short story and it was about a guy who wrote a sad short story and it won a contest for funny short story or something ironic like that and throughout this day in the story he met a girl and had hot chocolate with her. I'm trying to see if I can find a copy to share.

Not only was he a great writer but he was a really good good good person. Didn't say bad things about anyone and seemed to always have an eternal perspective about every challenge and trial of small and large proportions and it made a big impact on me. Even when he had to stop going to school because of his health he would send updates to everyone from Facebook and still worked on his websites which promoted a courageous happy way of living. I encourage you to check them out. He was a really amazing kid and the world needs more people like him, especially now, that believe in doing the right thing and that do it with a smile every time. It is sad that he's not here anymore but he made an impact on lots of people and knew what came after this life.

If I can find his poems I will try to post a couple of them that will make you smile. I am so glad that I know what comes after this life. To have that perspective and that surety makes death not scary or that tragic at all.