friendowl, fuck man that makes me really sad, even though neither you nor i knew the kid otherwise
i believe that everything that happens in life happens for a reason.
when i was 17 years old, i attempted suicide and swallowed a bottle of pills.
i remember when i was in the hospital and the doctors were standing over me, they were trying to calculate the amount of pills i'd taken and the milligrams of each pill, and they were trying to calculate the lethal dosage.
and i remember that i was able to multiply the numbers in my head that they were trying to do, and i told them.
and they informed me that i'd exceeded the lethal dosage and was lucky to be alive.

life put into perspective.
everything that happens happens for a reason.
there is something to be learned from every event, every tragedy.
not a day goes by where i don't think about the joys of my life and how it almost never happened and how lucky i really am.
the prospect of death is a very humbling experience, for sure. cheers.