My Best Friend.....

Crazeej wrote:

ok....so my friend told me a long time ago, about a lyric from a pearl jam song........i can't remember it at all, which song.....what album....all i have to go with is this:

"i am the sacrifice that lived on"

does anyone know where it came from? HELP!

she always said that if her doctors would let her, she was going to get a tattoo.......now I want it!

PJ17MKD wrote:

here where i live, old people say that people are dead if they die twice. The first time is the physical one. And the second time is when the people would be forgotten.
Cherish the nice and happy moments you spent together with him...Think and talk about your friend with others and pray for his soul - somehow that's the only way you can do to keep him alive in your heart and mind... i am very sorry for your loss...

Crazeej wrote:

I had the great fortune to know an incredible person. A fighter if you will. She had a great love of music and an even greater sense of strength...We were lucky enough to FINALLY see Pearl Jam a couple years ago in Calgary and in Edmonton, Alberta.

We were in Calgary waiting in line to buy tshirts and all that other good stuff, when I heard the people behind me saying they were going through their Canadian money like it was water. So me being the nosey person I am, asked where they were from, and they were from California travelling through Canada following the band.....talk about my dream!

Me and my friend go back to our decision making process, what tshirt to get, should we buy a hoodie too, do we want a poster. We decided we were gonna wait to see what the poster looked like in Edmonton instead. Well the California people over heard us this time, and asked us to buy them a poster and gave us money (their friend couldn't make the concert). So we meet them a couple minutes later and give them their poster and their change back and they ask us where we're sitting. And we laugh and tell them we're in the nose bleeds....and my friends famous words are said "I'm just happy to be here!" And it was true....this was our dream.....our one moment together we both wanted before either of us died. (you know how you say that....before I die....I want to........)

Then these perfect strangers offer us their 7th row tickets....because their friend who didn't make the concert had 1st row tickets. They flat out....handed us two 7th row tickets for free....and went on their way. It was the best night of my life, with the one person who would appreciate more than anyone else I know. As soon as the band started playing and Eddie walked out on the stage and started playing "Oceans" we look at each other and started crying and laughing all at the same time. (Ok I cried, she went through the motions of crying, but could not, since she couldn't produce tears).

Then.....the moment happened for us.....as soon as "Black" started, we grabbed each others hands.......and bawled. This was our moment, this is the moment I will hold onto for the rest of my life. Our favorite song played.....and we are in the 7th row of the concert....hanging onto each other, so happy, we're crying.

On June 28, 2008. My best friends body decided it was done fighting. She had lupus and was diagnosed when she was 18. The doctors told her parents that it would be a miracle if she lived to see 30. She was 33 years old. She was a miracle, and it was at the age of 30 that we got to see Pearl Jam together, and that in itself was another miracle.

So I am sending this out into the void......out to anyone else who has loved and lost someone so awesome and so strong.......and so loving. To anyone else out there who has had the fortune to see Pearl Jam live with their best friend at their side...

I will love you always Daylene....you are with me always and forever in my heart. We still have Calgary and our "moment" together.

Jolene