Robin Williams

Got the news that one of my favorite funny men passed away today. Suicide by asphyxiation they say. I was sitting down blowing my life away watching YouTube and I scrolled down into the comment section and I see "RIP Robin Williams". My first thought was "Get the fuck outta here. That's not funny. Just another hoax." But I got a nagging feeling and ended up googling it, looking for some reassurance. When I saw it in big, bold ass letters I still didn't want to believe it. A plethora of thoughts ran through me and were all denying what I was seeing. But it was real. The realest real.
A part of my childhood died with that man. A part of me died with that man. As a kid, I was pretty outspoken but more so reserved than anything. I wore my heart on my sleeve and kids saw my weakness. I watched a lot of tv and movies to cheer myself up and most of them were comedies. I love comedies. Robin quickly made himself one of my favorites and wormed his way into my heart and made permanent residence there. Not even being melodramatic here. And as I got older, my love for him never wavered still looking back on past movies by him and I still laughed (or cried respectively) the way I did when I was a child. So hearing the news today, did nothing less but gut me. But I didn't cry. And even still, I don't think he'd want us to. He brought more joy into my life than most people I've known for years. His passion was to make people happy and I think he'd want to be remembered as the guy that gave us that little spark of happiness on our saddest days. I'm gonna try my best to live by this:
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I send all of my love and regards to his family and friends. I pray that they'll get through this tough time with the help of each other.

Robin was a friend to all of us, even if we never met him in person. Our little alien flew back into the stars.
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August 12th, 2014 at 06:45am