I was flipping through random diaries today and found an entry on one girl's about one of her best friends, who had just passed away. It's weird, and also a little bit unfair, that so many people die young. I mean, from sophomore year up til we graduated, we had I think four people from our school die, three of which died within about four or five months of each other. The first, Ben Lyman, died the summer between sophomore and junior years; for all intents and purposes he drowned--head or neck injury first, he was jumping off a bridge in the are. He was kind of a friend of mine. We had biology together and he would turn around and talk to all of us on my table (that was pretty cool for me because he was a jock and jocks didn't talk to the marching band kids...) and he would always tell me that I would look so much hotter if I dyed my hair black. And as I was thinking about him, I realized that while I knew him, I didn't really KNOW him. And I wish that I did, because now I regret never asking him on a date or anything...ya know? The second and third died together. First weekend of October. I remember that mostly because they died right when the band was performing at a competition. Car crash. Neither were wearing seatbelts. I didn't know either of them very well, but the one I did know the best I knew because he was a percussionist in band. Taylor Wick. Chris Dorius. The fourth guy, Tyson Busenbark, was in my graduating class. Known him since fourth grade, and was never really friends with him. In fact, I always found him way too rude and mean to want to be friends with him...(and that's saying a lot because I know I can be pretty brutally honest, which some people find rude). Anyways, he was terminally ill. Cancer of some sort. Four people in three years...too many people to die young.......... Oh, there were five. One of the guys who graduated before me died this summer too. David Heiner. He also basically drowned. His family moved to one of the Carolinas and he went back to visit in June and was swimming in a pool with his younger brothers and didn't come up for the longest time. Was pulled out, taken to the hospital, and then life-flighted to a different hospital. Died about two (?) weeks later. Which happened to be about a week or so before he would have turned 20.