I really appreciate all of your kind words and thoughts and this is what makes Clutchfans great. Its more than just a basketball board but a real community of friends. I got home early this morning and it was hard seeing the window on my door boarded up where the burglars had broken and seeing my ransacked living room. It only looks like they only took my TV though but left everything except for some change out of a bowl that I kept loose change in. What was even harder though was that Mark left some of his drums at my house and they were still sitting there, in the same location as in the photo I posted of him. I went up to them and put my hands on them and really felt the tears well up. I still have a hard time realizing that I'm never going to hear him wailing on those skins again. On the flight back I was thinking about how quickly any of us can go and you never know if you will be here from one moment to the next. My friend didn't have a wife or kids and wasn't dating anybody at the time he died. In fact he spent of his free time playing online role playing games. He was my friend and I don't want to judge what he had wanted out of life but part of me wishes he had gotten the chance to live a fuller life. The lesson might be to take as much out of life as you can because you might never know when it will end.
It's very sad. I hope and pray that things will get better for you.I lost a friend to cancer when he was in his thirties some years ago. God Bless.
