The (Post) Eulogy I Should Have Given For My Best Friend When He Passed, But I Didn’t Because I Couldn’t Bring Myself To
A eulogy/open letter to my childhood friend who passed away on March 25th, 2021.
It’s been known I could write half decent at an early age due to school essays I wrote, turned in and teachers praised. I was one of three asked to write and read graduation speeches every student in fifth grade wrote, for the fifth-grade ceremony. I won’t lie, I killed it. I was confident and concise. I looked up from my paper every 7 seconds or so, to look at the crowd. In all honesty, it all came pretty naturally. The point is from that time on, I have been asked to write and read eulogies on more occasions than I care to count, and have always done so, However, it was always planned ahead of time. So when I sat there at my best friend in the entire world’s viewing, still very much in shock and doing my best not to break down crying, for everyone’s benefit — and was inevitably asked to speak in front of everyone about the man I’ll always miss— all I could muster out without my voice cracking was “ I can’t”.
However, it’s been almost two years since that awful day I lost such an important part of me along with all of our plans for the future, both personally as well as professionally…
