This is another “serious face” post.

Dammit. If you read this regularly you know I occasionally look up old friends via the net. It’s cool to find that a buddy has gotten famous or something. Not today.

I was looking up a friend from UNM ’cause I’ve been thinking a lot lately about getting back in touch. Nothing turned up in the directory, but then something popped up- a scholarship in his name. That’s weird, he was a major-achiever type. Maybe I ran accross his app.

Damn. Nope. It’s a memorial.

A bit more searching and I find out he died in a car crash in April of last year. I’m overwhelmed. This crap has to freakin stop. I’ve found out about two of my firends who have passed away this year. Both were incredible people, and both died in such needless circumstances-both were people I was planning to call. I hate that fact.

I know that given my past working with people I’m supposed to believe that everyone is important or special or whatever, but screw that. Collin was better than most. Most people have their head up their butt.

We talked at length about how we saw the world, both of us being rather cynical people, but both of us were pretty positive people- I think that’s what bonded us.

He’s one of those people you just want to see succeed. He had a lot to be pissed off about in his past, but rather than dwell on it he was resolved to focus on the future. I think he genuinely liked people. He had the ability to adapt to any group he found himself in- but I got the sence that he never felt he belonged.

He died in a car crash. It’s the same stretch of road where Heidi and I flipped a car doing 70 a few years before. Its a fast desert highway filled with bulky rigs and those gradual turns that can catch you off guard. They think the driver was drinking. He stumbled away. Man that pisses me off. It pisses me off.

Life is so freaking precious- every drop. I hate it sometimes. So many people just never ever take their head out and realize it or explore it. They just take it up. Its glaringly obvious when you see the big hole that people like Collin leave when they go.

It should make you want to leave this place having done something you feel is signifigant- having connected- having experienced- just something.

Damn shame. Rest in peace friend.

Article and pic.
Scholarship.

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