I don't really like the two prompts so I'm just going to write about whatever I want.
Recently I've been thankful for my family, friends, and all the people in my life.
Friday, I learned about the loss of an acquaintance of mine. I hardly knew him, only spoke a few times, but if you went to Arkansas Tech during the time he was there and didn't know about him, you must have been living under a rock. Tech is a really small campus, compared to some, such as Texas State. Until recently it had under 10,000 people officially enrolled. 10,000 people sound like a lot, but for some reason it always felt like a small community. I didn't get that involved with groups on campus and yet I still hardly could go anywhere without seeing someone I at least had met before. No, they may not have been my friend, but I had talked to them, had a class with them, etc. So I can only imagine the people that joined every group possible had the same experience, only 10 times more. For someone to be so influential, that almost every person, especially every person living on campus at least had heard about him says something. I knew him through living in Nutt Hall (Summit) my first year...he was an RA there on one of the floors. Later I found out that he and Bobby knew each other through engineering. It's a tragedy that something like this has happened to literally one of the best, most genuine people on this planet. Rest in Peace AC.
It's times like these when you think about life and it's crazy ways. I couldn't stop thinking about it Friday and why this would happen to someone like AC. In the end, life doesn't make sense and we can only get by on the hope that everything happens for a reason, of which I am a true believer.
Today I am thankful for each and every day that I have and those to come, as well as all the people along the way that have gotten me to where I am today, the people currently in my life, and those I don't yet know.
Life is short, don't let it pass you by...
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