The Happiest Sad Day Ever!

[Timber Jack]

Today marks the 8 year anniversary of one of my best friends death. Jesse Comitted suicide March 1, 2003. For 8 years now I look at this day and ask many questions. Today March 1, 2011 one of my best friends, a mutal friend of Jesse and myself had a baby boy that he named Bryce Jesse. Makes ya wonder doesn't? Thanks for listening.

 

[rskybiz]

Welcome thanks for sharing!

 

[SoonerFan]

Today would be my dad's birthday, if he were still with us.

 

[Mr. Sir]

Makes ya wonder doesn't?

Yup. My wife died in a car accident at the exact same moment that my employee's wife was giving birth to their first son. Weird.

 

[Treepreacher51]

Very apt thread title.

Congrats to your friend on the baby and belated continued condolences.

 

[thattreeguy]

thanks for sharing,
a sad time and a joyous time

 

[Old Monkey]

I remember the people in my life who've died, here and there as things remind me of them. I could not tell you the day my dad died even though I was in the hospital when it happened. There are 365 days in the year and I don't have a single on of them set aside for remorse. Its great to be alive. Its great to have met wonderful people and to have been part of their lives. When I go, however I go, I want the memories folks have of me to make them smile and perhaps even laugh. I can't imagine someone that I have cared for in my life wanting me to feel sad on the anniversary of their death.

 

[Paul B]

Darin, good words. thanks.

 

[Al Smith]

Christmas eve 1967 myself and my buddy were involved in an auto accident on 7 mile bridge in the Florida Keys . My bud didn't make it ,I was cut up pretty bad .

As I lay in a hospitol bed in Marathon sewn up like a baseball at approximently the same moment Greg passed on I heard the cry of a new born baby . What's it mean,I don't know .

 

[Mr. Sir]

Life goes on.

 

[stehansen]

My Wife passed on Feb. 2 and my granddaughter was born Feb. 25. Like Brett said, OM too. All you can do is to take care of yourself and hold your loved ones tight now and again.

 

[Cobleskill]

I am like OM. I know the month and year my Dad died, and the mo/yr my best bud died. 12 years for my Dad and almost 6 for my bud. I still think of them often.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I could give two hoots about the day my best friend died, if he hadn't indulged himself to death, he wouldn't be dead.