It's like when I got a 3 am phone call and heard that my friend Joe passed away due to his peanut allergy in Amsterdam. Didn't think it was going to happen, ya know? Cruising along, and gone, just like that.

It is the ineluctable fact of life that this whole experience thing ends sometime, and we never really know when. On the plus side, life is good... so when you go, make sure you renew the bonds with those of you that are left so that you don't waste the time you've got.