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June 30, 2003
Dear Jeff...
Dear Jeff,
I'm sorry that I fell out of touch with you. I'm sorry that I didn't make an effort to reconnect before it was too late. I don't know if you can forgive me. I don't quite know with certainty if I'll ever see you again, but I hope and pray (albeit perhaps, too late) that I will.
You were a good and close friend to me during those grade-school and high-school years. I always had fun sleeping-over at your house. I fondly remember typing computer games into your Commodore 64, playing Dungeons & Dragons with your brother & with Matt G. I remember playing in the stream and lighting fire-crackers. I remember riding the 4-wheeler... I remember many lunch-periods and working in the school library. I remember quite a bit... But I've forgotten a lot, too.
We even traded Christmas presents well after we'd pretty much stopped being in contact with each other. We'd missed the e-mail boom by just a little bit, so it wasn't quite normal for us to be so connected. Our lives went different ways... I'd hear bits and pieces about you and your life when I'd come home to visit... Never quite sure what was true or not. I've wondered how our lives both might have been different if we'd corresponded more.
The longer I waited to get in touch with you again, the more foolish I felt. That was so stupid of me... Now, how foolish I feel, for having missed out on ever doing that again. I don't know if I should be trying to take a "life lesson" from this... the one thing I can say is that I don't want to let my good friends slip through my fingers again.
I pray that God holds you, Jeff... And I pray for peace and comfort for your family and the other people in your life that you've touched, I know I'm only one of many...
-Andrew.
Jeff's full obituary: posted 7/1/03.
Posted by Andrew at June 30, 2003 02:52 AM
Comments
I went through all my pictures at home and found a few, scanned them in and I have them on my website. I'm still in shock. I just can't believe it. I sympathize with you. I wish I would have stayed more in touch with him. But I did get to see him one last time, out of the blue at Papagallows that night. I will always remember that night. He really loved his teaching job down there in Elizabethtown. He was very happy. This is so hard. I can't eat, think, sleep. All I can do is pray and ask God for peace and some sort of understanding or reason.
God Bless,
Mike
Posted by: Mike Swartz at July 1, 2003 12:45 AM