Today I realized that when parents and adults say that, they don't mean invincible in the sense that I'm thinking. Teens make decisions all the time without thinking about them. They pick up their phone to look at a text while driving, they get in the car with their ride, even though that person has been drinking. We just don't think before we act sometimes. It takes half a second to change your life, or in some cases, lose it.
Today, search and rescue crews found the body of my friend, Daniel Alexander Brown. He had gone rafting with friends in the flooded river in Nashville. He had been there to persue his music career and go to school at SAE Institute for audio engineering. The last time I talked to him, he was so excited about life and he was SO HAPPY to finally be doing what he loved. Danny was a truly amazing person. He was an amazing musician, and he was the best friend that any of his friends could have. He was so funny, and he had so much potential. I am sitting here at this computer screen typing all this out right now, and I can't wrap my mind around the fact that he's never going to pop up in my instant messaging on facebook and said "what's up!?" ever again. The whole thing just tears me apart. He was really going to be somebody, and he was totally happy with what he was doing. It just breaks my heart to see someone so bright, so talented, with so much drive to get where they wanted to be in the world, to just be gone.
I'm a teenager. I don't think about most of the things I do. I know sometimes I do things that probably aren't a good idea, but I don't ever see them as threatening my life. It's terrible that it takes a tragedy like this to see that even if I'm just trying to have fun, I could potentially hurt myself or even die. Danny was just trying to have fun, like always. Now he's gone. It's just terrible that life happens this way sometimes. It's just plain hard.
Rest in Peace Danny. You will be greatly missed by countless people. We all love you.
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