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I just got an email saying that a guy I knew, Jake Davis, died on Saturday at a Church Camp in Virginia. He was 19, just graduated from KO, was in choir, and was going to go to Harvard. Andddd...now he's dead. And I didn't know until just now.
This happened to me a few years ago also. Except it was 2 boys that were at one time in the same grade as me. They took their dad's truck for a joyride in the middle of the night and crashed.
Jake drown. In a lake. With a bunch of other camp people. Apparently, he screamed for help, but no one did anything. And now he's dead.
But what I think pisses me off the most is that some people, like Rebecca, are such a-holes about it.
I asked her if she knew him and she was like "Why do you care?"
"Well, I just wanted to know if you knew him..because he DIED."
"STALKER! What were you doing..snooping people's profiles, stalker? Who cares anyway? I don't..I'm doing laundry."
"I hope you know that you're talking about a human being whom you went to school with for 2 years and whom wouldn't have said a mean thing about anyone ever."
"So..?"
"So what? What if you died? Would you want people to shrug your death off because they had to wash their underwear? No. You would want people to respect you whether you were alive or not. So grow a heart and use it."
"I'm a teenager. I don't care."
"Yes, you're a teenager and so am I and so was the guy that just died."
"Ok. Whatever."
"You're a jerk. What goes around comes around. I hope your satisfied when people don't give a second thought to your death."
Yeah..that's pretty much how the conversation went.
Rebecca likes to call me a stalker whenever I care about something other than myself.
Actually, Rebecca likes to call me names and treat me badly for absolutely no reason.
But right now..all she is to me is a heartless and stone-cold person that I'm pained to live with.
I really can't think of the last person's death it took to shake her.
How many people have to die before she learns to respect the dead, no matter if she knew them well or not?
Probably a lot.
And that, my good friends, is a tragedy.
 MajesticTOASTER · Wed Jul 16, 2008 @ 09:20pm · 2 Comments |
