I'm a Survivor, Damn it
If I were to be remembered for anything in all of the friend groups I've been part of in my long life, I think I'd be remembered for simply knowing that I'd survive them all. All those friends, I knew, would pass on before me. Being young, I didn't really take it seriously, of course. That was a lo-o-o-ng way off in the future, after all, and I was a naturally ebullient, sunny, clown of a personality. As a Libra, all of the glasses in my life were full to overflowing, despite how many times life upturned them. It's hard for me to say this, but after the two years since my wife's death, my best friend's death, the death of my only true big brother (not blood, but my brother all the same), as well as the death of three other friends and the loss of two beloved cats, I'm gutted in the most true and absolute sense. In a word, I'm lonely. Other friends and family members have passed over the past several years too, and all of these losses add up to what i...
