Mar 24, 2023
11MAR23 Rise and grind. Hug your people. Take the pictures. Positive vibes only. Rest in peace SPO.
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11MAR23 Rise and grind. Hug your people. Take the pictures. Positive vibes only. Rest in peace SPO.
Happy Birthday Sophie.
You would have been 28 today.
While your physical presence is gone
Your soul lingers, and guides us all in everything we do.
OK lemme put the story here so I don't have to repeat it a lot.
7 years ago yesterday now (the 11th) a friend of mine and her boyfriend were attacked. Spo died on the 24th, her boyfriend survived but he's never been the same.
I have a fair amount of guilt about what happened, because I had been in the park where the attack happened with my (then) boyfriend that night. Just an hour or so earlier. Walking home.
So despite the now intervening years I am really badly affected and feel really shitty on the 11th and generally the 10th and 12th too. Actually all of August. August is just a really shitty month. I miss my friend.
Earlier I was watching Robin Williams films on Netflix to cheer myself up. Now that's making me feel pretty maudlin too.
I'm about to listen to this song for the first time in 5 years.
It was the song played at my friends funeral, and I've not been able to listen to it since.
It's one of my favourite songs, so I think it's time I break it, because she wouldn't want me to stop listening to a song just because it makes me think of her.
Here goes.