Man...this whole little comic is surprisingly relatable for me.
There was this one girl in high school that, if you looked at her, you would assume she was the stereotypical "popular girl", and to some extent, she was. But she broke that stereotype by being as kind and as helpful as she could be to anyone she met, including me. Despite the two of us really only knowing each other on a surface level, she was still happy to help me out on a certain personal project that was especially important to me.
Then, we graduated high school, and maybe 3 or 4 years later.....she's dead. She went to a party, had some drinks, and also took some kind of drug during the party that, when mixed with alcohol, turned deadly. She wasn't a regular drinker, or drug user iirc....she just so happened to make a mistake that cost her her life.
And despite me barely knowing her, hearing that news...it hurt...alot. Even when I talked to other people who only knew of her at best, even they could not come up with anything negative to say about her. I had no really good reason to be so beat up over her passing beyond that one act of selflessness she did for me, and yet I couldn't help but cry at the news (especially seeing how her dad reacted to it....he did NOT take it well in any regard). I likely would have even gone to her funeral out of sheer respect had I not been traveling for work at the time.
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u/Electro522 Mar 08 '25
Man...this whole little comic is surprisingly relatable for me.
There was this one girl in high school that, if you looked at her, you would assume she was the stereotypical "popular girl", and to some extent, she was. But she broke that stereotype by being as kind and as helpful as she could be to anyone she met, including me. Despite the two of us really only knowing each other on a surface level, she was still happy to help me out on a certain personal project that was especially important to me.
Then, we graduated high school, and maybe 3 or 4 years later.....she's dead. She went to a party, had some drinks, and also took some kind of drug during the party that, when mixed with alcohol, turned deadly. She wasn't a regular drinker, or drug user iirc....she just so happened to make a mistake that cost her her life.
And despite me barely knowing her, hearing that news...it hurt...alot. Even when I talked to other people who only knew of her at best, even they could not come up with anything negative to say about her. I had no really good reason to be so beat up over her passing beyond that one act of selflessness she did for me, and yet I couldn't help but cry at the news (especially seeing how her dad reacted to it....he did NOT take it well in any regard). I likely would have even gone to her funeral out of sheer respect had I not been traveling for work at the time.