Farewells

A quick post that I feel is only right given the circumstances of what's happened recently.

It has greatly saddened me to hear the news regarding one of my friends from my old school. Unfortunately, his life was cut short as he recently passed away.

I remember seeing mention of it on Facebook via one of my old school friends. At first, I thought it was a sick cruel joke, but unfortunately I was to be proven wrong. Shocked doesn't even begin to describe how I felt at the time.

When I was at Handsworth Grammar, he was one of my closer friends. He was the kind of guy who you'd be able to talk to quite easily, share a joke with and generally have a good time with. We didn't really get the chance to talk much afterwards; we both went our separate ways, with me being increasingly disillusioned by HGS and moving on to becoming who I am today.

Yet I will always have that guilt. How cruelly I threw aside people and how I judged everyone with little to no solid information whatosever. And now he's gone. I won't have the chance to redeem that.

I won't be able to make the funeral, but I do hope this situation brings the other HGS boys together again. To reunite and re-acquaint ourselves with each other. As new people. As adults. As men.

R.I.P Michael Chung. A wonderful person taken from us so early.