I have that thing on FB that send me notifications when one of my friends is celebrating their Birthday. \u00a0I like this feature! \u00a0I like it for two reasons: \u00a0I like to send Happy Birthday Greetings and I love Birthdays!!! \u00a0Period!<\/p>\n
So, today, I received my notification that I had two friends celebrating a Birthday today.<\/p>\n
I immediately opened the link to see who was having a birthday. \u00a0The first person is actually a Minister these days! \u00a0Who would have thought that this person would go into the ministry!?! \u00a0I mean, I have known them forever! \u00a0I know all of the pranks we pulled back in Jr. High and High School! \u00a0So, seeing that it was their Birthday, well, all of those memories came flooding back and made me giggle. \u00a0I wished him a Happy Birthday and moved on to see who was my second friend having a Birthday.<\/p>\n
This second person, brought my giggling to an abrupt stop.<\/p>\n
This second person is somebody with whom I attended college. \u00a0We were in music groups together. \u00a0We toured a major portion of the Eastern part of the United States during our 4 year tenure in college. \u00a0I had a lot of fond memories about this person as well.<\/p>\n
So, why did my happiness stop?<\/p>\n
This friend passed suddenly this past Spring. \u00a0He was my age. \u00a0I think I was a few months older than him. \u00a0He just up and had a heart attack leaving behind a wife and teenage son.<\/p>\n
They have not, as yet, deleted his FB account. \u00a0The thought has probably ever occurred to them that they need to do this.<\/p>\n
This made me sad.<\/p>\n
It did, however, begin to bring back a flood of memories of the great times we had touring on weekends and Spring Breaks with our other music nerd friends.<\/p>\n
I wonder how his wife and son are doing. \u00a0This will have been the first time having his Birthday with him being gone. \u00a0Probably not a really great day for them, to be sure.<\/p>\n
So, today was a day of memories. \u00a0Happy and sad and happy again!<\/p>\n
Happy Birthday, friends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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