Mark

There was this kid that I knew only online, but I considered him a good friend nonetheless. We used to talk all the time, but about a year ago he sort of fell off the end of the earth and we didn't talk anymore.

On Monday night I was looking at his myspace page, for the first time in about a year, and noticed that he hadn't logged on since March 14, 2008. I looked at his top friends and clicked on one of them, and her headline was "RIP Mark March 14, 2008". I was absolutely shocked.

I went to his cousin's myspace page and found myself reading the story of someone whose life had been thrown into turmoil and chaos by the loss of his best friend and cousin, Mark. Since Mark's death he had gotten in trouble with the law and changed in ways that had cost him friendships that he desperately needed more than ever after Mark died. He and mark had done everything together, fought like brothers, gone places, gotten in trouble together, had the kind of fun only best friends can.

It was just so sad to see what the loss had done to Mark's cousin and the rest of his family as well. I'm still depressed about the whole thing, and I wish I'd taken the 2 minutes now and then to leave a comment on Mark's myspace or send him a message or something.