An Untitled Legacy
There was a time when I was so inexplicably angry. At what had happened, at every situational factor, and I couldn’t process anything. How could something like this happen? How was I going to get through life without one of my best friends? I couldn’t answer these questions because frankly I couldn’t even say the words out loud. For years I went through life trying to forget, I saw my friends year after year seemingly deal with it and I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me. Why was it so impossible for me to push past this event? In a lot of ways Em was the first friend I had who completely understood me. My insecurities were her insecurities and at a time when I felt as if no one was on my side, she was there. We shared our deepest secrets and our biggest fears. In the midst of one phone call all of that changed. My friend was gone forever and the future I had planned, the accomplishments and milestones we were supposed to experience collapsed around me. After all ...