2 weeks ago…

Almost two weeks ago I saw an old friend.

I knew him from when I was a high school student- we caught the same train for years. When I met Jake, my high school boyfriend, it turned out that Jimmy (the old friend I saw) knew him and I got to know Jimmy better because despite having caught the same train for years we hadn`t really had much to do with each other.

Seeing Jimmy brings back memories of high school parties, drinking too much, train rides to school & uni life as we were at the same uni for our first year, doing some similar subjects.

Ironically we ran into each other on the train to work- I have seen him a couple times since I have been back in Australia and once, about six weeks ago, we even stopped and had a coffee to catch up. He is doing well, hates his job and wants to change but apart from that he is good. Hasn`t changed at all really…

Two weeks ago he asked me if I remembered somebody. Some  identical twins that had been in the same year as Jake & Jimmy.

I replied, of course I remember P & M….I used to see them all the time at parties back in the day, back during the time I was still with Jake.

Then he said the words that threw me. ” M died a couple of weeks ago…”

I was shocked, I asked if he had been sick, I asked how P was but I really couldn`t comprehend what he was saying and all I could think of was that someone my age, a friend, had died. Poor P.  Poor M & P`s family.

M was electrocuted at work. He was an electrician. So is P. He was 22….he died several weeks before his 23rd birthday.

My mind was spinning around, I knew I should comfort Jimmy who had always been close to them both. I was speechless….I  did not know what to say.

Jimmy & I parted at the station and all I wanted to do was cry. How could something like this have happened? I walked around in a daze all day, I rang my mum to tell her & I tried to remember the last time I saw the twins. It has got to be 5 years….not since before Jake & I broke up which was all the way back in late 2003.  I can not recollect the last time I saw M or P though…

I am sending a prayer up today though, as P & his family are heading into their first christmas season without M and I can not even begin to imagine what they are going through and how hard this will be for them. I wish them the very best though and I just hope they can get through it. And I am sending a prayer up for M, whose life was taken from him way too early….such a tragedy.

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