we should say it all

BRITs: One year ago today we lost a remarkable talent and friend.

paulyhiggins: October 2023, exactly one year to the day before you left us!💔

We took a road trip around Ireland, a simple journey with good friends... yet it became something more!! A week of love, hope and prayer.🙏

We were back on the road again...not knowing how precious these moments would become forever!

Love and miss you always brother!

A gentle, special soul!

roo0990: For the entire of august this date has being weighing on my mind. Not only is it your first heavenly birthday, but also a year since I saw you.

It was just the 5 of us for your birthday last year, something that had rarely happened since 1D had begun and I was so happy about it that when I wrote your card, I misspelt your name as ‘Laim’ and we laughed I should address you this way in all future cards, not knowing this would be the last card I’d write to you.

I’ve really struggled with thoughts today, I remember what I said as we said goodbye for what was supposed to be a few months, only now I wished I’d have said more, hugged you more, made you stay in England and then maybe today would have been exactly the same perfect day for you, but with you being here (I’ve been waiting for you to walk in all day and tell me this was all a huge misunderstanding).

When we were with you this day last year, you had so many plans, so many things to do and the year ahead felt full of excitement.

I wrote my instagram story sat next to last year, I showed you (if it’s not on instagram, it didn’t happen) you read it and said ‘ditto’, there’s no difference in what I wrote then to now, from the bottom of my broken heart, I don’t know what I’m doing without you.