Insomnolence |Ryden AU| ✔️

Important

Hey all.  I just need to talk with you guys for a second, and hopefully you can all learn a life lesson from it, as well.

Yesterday morning, on December 15, 2017, one of my classmates and my best friend's boyfriend was in a car accident.  I haven't heard all the details, but the roads were really slippery, and I think a semi hit him or he hit a semi or whatever.  The details aren't important, but he was in critical condition.  They had to fly him out to a more high-tech hospital because his vitals were all out of whack.  Our teachers told us during 3rd period.

The thing was, we had concert choir practice that morning at 7:30.  He was on his way to practice when it happened.  I even saw the firetrucks speeding out toward the bridge, but I didn't think anything of it.  I just thought there was a ditch fire or something.  I never would have guessed it was my friend of nearly 6 years unconscious and burning in a car fire.

So he went into surgery around noon, from what I heard.  Both of his legs were broken.  His pelvis was shattered.  His aorta was torn.  He was in a severe coma, but we were all hoping and praying because my friend said his head was twitching a bit when she talked to him later that night.  I was hoping that that was a good sign, that he could hear her from wherever he was at in his mind and was going to wake up soon.

Then around 12:45 AM, I heard that he passed away.

December 16, 2017.

He had just turned seventeen on November 30.  It's a week after my birthday.  Less than ten days before Christmas.  I can't even begin to imagine what his family is going through, because his dad has cancer and his younger sister was diagnosed with cancer literally a day before his accident.  She's a freshman in high school.  They're such a good family.  They don't deserve this.

Events like this really put things into perspective for me.  Death still comes as a shock to me.  Over the summer both of my grandparents died.  In July/August an 8th grader got hit by a semi and died.  He had a twin brother.  Around August a recent alumni killed himself.  And now one of my own classmates?

It's a numb feeling, really.  Do you know that feeling?  Hearing bad news like this and then just feeling like it isn't even real.  I feel like I'm living in a fake world.  It hasn't hit me that he's gone yet.  I wasn't even super close to him, but he was a classmate.  I've known him forever.  And my poor friend.  I can't even begin to imagine what she's feeling.

It just doesn't feel real.  It just doesn't feel like I'll never see him around school again.  He was sick on Thursday, but he was as happy as ever in homeroom on Wednesday.  We were talking and having a good time.  He was such a strangely funny guy, and it doesn't seem right that the last time I ever saw him was on that day.  December 13, 2017.  The last time I ever talked to him.

All in all, I just wanna share something with you guys.  It's something that's really called to me over these past few months.

It's scary to think about, but human life is fleeting and precious.  Someone can slip out of your fingertips in a split second.  One minute you're with them, having a great time, and then you blink and they're gone forever.  It's difficult to even imagine something like that.

And it terrifies me.  I may not have been close with him, but what about my friend and his family and his friends?  What if it was my best friend or my family member or my crush?  I don't even wanna think about losing them like that.  I can't even imagine it.  And it terrifies me because that could happen at any given moment, and I'll never know if that moment is going to arise.

Don't take your life for granted.  Don't take your friends or your family or your crushes or your significant others for granted.  It's scary to think about, but you could lose them at any moment.  You may think it can never happen, because we're young and we feel like we're immortal, but we're not.  No one thinks they can die at such a young age, but it's possible.  I bet no one thought he could get in a car accident and die, but it happened, didn't it?  Humans, teenagers especially, are not immortal.  And we have to realize that, no matter how hard it may be to swallow.

I'm just in shock.  I don't know what to think.  A week before Christmas break and one of our dearest classmates dies from a terrible accident.  I don't even wanna think about going back to school on Monday.  I can't bear to see my friend in so much pain.

So really, just take my advice and don't take human life for granted.  Tell your friends you're happy to have them.  Tell your family you love them.  Be brave and go talk to your crush.  Tell your significant other they mean the world to you.  You never know what's going to happen to them, and it's terrifying.

I couldn't help but think of the situation in this story when I heard about what happened, and that's what makes it even worse.  When I was writing this, never did I ever think something like this could possibly happen in my life, so close to home.  It's crazy.  I just have no words.

There will still be an update tomorrow.  That's why I have these pre-written.

Please send your thoughts and prayers to my best friend, his family, his friends, our junior class, just the school in general.  They need it more than anything.

Thanks guys <3