I think I just experienced my first Internet death. It's among the strangest sets of feelings I've ever gone through.
I was browsing each of my friends' profiles, to find out more about them, see what they're up to. Now that I'm fully involved here, I'd like to get to know people and learn more about them. I'm a people watcher anyway, so it's natural for me. When I came to a particular friend, a note was posted saying that she died of injuries sustained in a fall on the morning of September 13.
I'm astonished that a person I knew in such a semi-fictional context may be gone. I don't know how to feel when I really didn't know her. I feel sorrow for her family and shock that this happened to her. The... vibe I get is that... just from what it looks like to me, it might have been suicide. And I really don't know how to react to that.
I knew her from a few brief conversations over the late Summer months. I remembered her talking about a particular wrestler (yeah, I'm a WWE fan, and so was she) having from her perspective an incredible upside. I didn't agree with her. In the past few months, though, the guy's gotten more camera time and I had wanted to ask her about it. I had no idea she wasn't there to ask.
Of course the internet thing makes it more of a shock. For all I know, she just closed her profiled down and decided to go out with a flair for the dramatic. Like I said, I don't KNOW HERE. It could have been a Catfish thing.
But I have no real reason to think that. I'd hope for it, but... likely she's just gone. And I really don't know what to think. But I should probably stop listening to the somber track from the American Beauty soundtrack.
I guess it helps me realize that any day could be the last. Cherish them. I've thought it before but it's good to recall.
I was browsing each of my friends' profiles, to find out more about them, see what they're up to. Now that I'm fully involved here, I'd like to get to know people and learn more about them. I'm a people watcher anyway, so it's natural for me. When I came to a particular friend, a note was posted saying that she died of injuries sustained in a fall on the morning of September 13.
I'm astonished that a person I knew in such a semi-fictional context may be gone. I don't know how to feel when I really didn't know her. I feel sorrow for her family and shock that this happened to her. The... vibe I get is that... just from what it looks like to me, it might have been suicide. And I really don't know how to react to that.
I knew her from a few brief conversations over the late Summer months. I remembered her talking about a particular wrestler (yeah, I'm a WWE fan, and so was she) having from her perspective an incredible upside. I didn't agree with her. In the past few months, though, the guy's gotten more camera time and I had wanted to ask her about it. I had no idea she wasn't there to ask.
Of course the internet thing makes it more of a shock. For all I know, she just closed her profiled down and decided to go out with a flair for the dramatic. Like I said, I don't KNOW HERE. It could have been a Catfish thing.
But I have no real reason to think that. I'd hope for it, but... likely she's just gone. And I really don't know what to think. But I should probably stop listening to the somber track from the American Beauty soundtrack.
I guess it helps me realize that any day could be the last. Cherish them. I've thought it before but it's good to recall.