To everyone I met whose ever known Adrian, I hope you take the time to read the following. Whether youve met me for a moment or have known me for a long while I want you to know that I care for you all and hope for the best in all of your lives and foremost, Im glad to have been apart of your lives and that your life has been shared with me. The following is a eulogy I wrote for Adrian Garcia but was too nervous and afraid to read out loud... Here it goes: It’s a rare thing to come across those special individuals that can make you feel the carefree joys that life has to offer in this world of pain and endless struggles. There are no comprehensive words to even begin to describe the effect these people have on our lives and we may not ever know that we’ve been affected at all until they’re gone from our lives completely. This is the case for me with Adrian and I can imagine it may be the case for many of us here. Adrian was a tremendous friend with a gigantic heart and a powerful ability to paint lasting memories in the minds and hearts of those he knew and loved. To illustrate the profound effect he had on me and my life, I first must tell you about the struggle I had endured due to a loss I experienced years ago. My definition of the words “friend” and “friendship” were challenged when I went through a personal life changing event that caused me to choose a path between loyalty and truth. The choice I made caused me a great loss that I’m still trying to recover from to this day. But this man, my brother, my friend, helped me to overcome some of my fears of friendship by accepting me into his life; sharing his thoughts with me, his failings, his successes, and his life. He was one of the very few persons that I let into my own life, truly because he was there for me like a real true friend. Thanks to his character and his tremendous gift for knowing how to have fun and enjoy life, I was able to once again experience the offerings of true friendship. The moments we spent together will never be forgotten and forever always be cherished with all my heart, for it was during those moments that we shared along with our other friends that I felt like the “real” me; the me that I thought I lost when I made that fateful decision years ago. And now that he’s gone, some of that fear is back that I may never see that part of me again and not only that, I know that I’ll never see one of my best friends again, hear his laugh, witness his hilarious mannerisms, feel his charismatic vibe. Then I realized that his passing is a lesson to me, and should be a lesson to us all who have taken friendships for granted, that we should never be too afraid to let our friends know our true thoughts and feelings through thick and through thin. We (I) shouldn’t be afraid to show the “real” us (me) because of some self-perceived thoughts of what we (I) think others expect of us (me).We (I) shouldn’t be afraid to make mistakes around our (my) friends and feel down if we (I) do make mistakes. Our time on this Earth is far too limited for whatever bumps, hills or even mountains in the road we come across, we should find a way to get over them and get over them quickly without spending so much time stressing because the scale of life is so much grander than the problems we face. Adrian Garcia to me is a true talented and gifted friend, a brother, a band mate, a teacher of life, master of influence for fun, and my personal savior; and he always will be, in my heart and the hearts of all those whom he loved and obviously loved him in return. Thank you for your love for our mutual friend. Adrian Garcia
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 06:49:26 +0000
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