times like these.. you can see why so many people have a religion.. it's a great comfort... to believe in heaven.. to believe in a better afterlife.. to believe that someone can be reborn and live their life over with a promising future... to believe your thoughts/prayers can somehow reach them.. to believe that someday you might meet them again..

but i guess what i believe... is wherever he is now, he's no longer in pain... and i'm grateful for that..

i'm also grateful to have met him again after those years and got to know him... and got to share a lot of happy, carefree days with that bunch...

i miss ya, buddy.