There was a girl in my VCD cut classes who was pretty cool. She was kinda quiet but had some really great design work and seemed like someone I’d be friends with. I still remember her 3 photo “passage of time” project from 166. She was obviously good and made it into the program. But then she found out she had leukemia and we didn’t see her after the last cut class. We heard she had arrangments to come back later. I just got an email from our prof telling us she passed away a few days ago.
It’s really weird… I mean, in highschool there was a girl who died from like carbon dioxide poisoning our senior year but I had never really known her. And we always heard about people getting into drunk driving things, but I didn’t really know them either. I’ve also known distant-ish family members or friends of the family who have passed away. And I’ve had a near-death of a friend. But I think this is the first time it’s been someone my age who I actually knew, even though I wasn’t that close it’s still really wierd to think about.
And now I’m really sad. She would have been a good designer and it’s weird to think about the fact that she just doesn’t exist any more. And now I can’t help but think about how terrible it will be when the people even closer to me will be gone forever. I know it’s inevitable, but it makes me really really sad and makes me want to give everyone a hug, but no one is around. = (