jack,
it’s been quite a while. i have to be honest. i thought it would end with brad. i hoped it would end with brad. i know you weren’t my biggest fan. you didn’t like that i was pro-life.
isn’t that funny.
life.
that’s what got away from you. and it grieves me to the bottom of my heart that you will never be able to read this, jack. you were a brilliant kid. it was obvious. and now this? now you’re number four? the fourth from your class to die from addiction. four. how many is it going to take? four young boys. that’s eight parents putting their sons into the ground. that’s ..who knows how many grandparents wondering how it panned out like this. and numerous siblings saying goodbye to their brothers. countless friends considering the last time they saw you, the last thing they said to you.
how many will it take?
how many people are going to have life wrestled out of their hands before the rest of us realize that this is not it. this thing we take for granted- this waking up and laying down. this is not long. and it’s fragile. and it’s precious.
and you’re gone. and hearts are breaking everywhere for that. for you, for your family, for your friends. i wish you weren’t gone, i wish that for brad and for ian and for blake. but man do i hope this ends with you, jack.
