My friend almost died, take time to read this, you'll be glad u did

This morning I got up, scrambled eggs, cooked sausage, and sat down with my husband and son- I grabbed the Sunday paper, and flipped through it. On the third page was a picture of one of my highschool friends. His parents had put the picture of him there to say thankyou to everyone who had stayed by thier sides. My friend was paralized from neck down. I started crying immediatly, this was the first time I had heard about it. My friend, JR , was someone i always talked too in school. He was sincere and someone I always knew I could trust. He would pick me up for school, and drop me off. He always helped with my math homework. He was a bit shy, so we would always eat lunch together. We were debate partners. We had known each other in grade school. He moved to East Texas his junior high years, and moved back during highschool. He didn't have a whole lot of friends, because he was so laid back, but he was always someone I knew would sore when he spread his wings. After highschool he went into the coast guard, and I of coarse went on to do what I did. We kinda lost touch, and eventually he became a a memory, and a vision I saw when I thought about highschool. I can't express the feelings I had for him. There was never anything intimate there, we were truely just great friends. T^omarrow I am going to stop by his parents house, and see him. I haven't seen him in three years. This is going to be so hard for me. I wish I could express what a wonderful beautiful person this guy was. I told my husband I was going to see him, and that I didn't want to drive myself, because I dont know how I will handle seeing JR with his wings not soaring. Tears hit my eyes everytime I think about this. It hurts so bad to know someone so great has had something so bad happen to him. I went through my yearbook, and on the page where he signed he put "Elizabeth, when two people such as you and I can be soulmates, friends, and nothing more, you know you have found the perfect friend. People have always said that a girl and a guy couldn't be just friends, but they must not have known us. You're a beautiful person, and the day you walked into my life was the day God sent me my angel." <------ this was wrote by an 17 year old, that tells you what a beautiful person he is........ on our senior year book he wrote.... " Liz, Never forget The End of the road.." <------- he wrote this because when we were at our prom we took time to dance one song together, The end of the road by Boyz to men...... But like i said - time has changed and we drifted apart, but truth is he will always have a specail place in my heart..... so I guess what I really want to say - is if you have one person who was a real friend, even if not the friend you went everywhere with, take time to let them know how specail they are.... thats what Im going to do tomarrow.

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