"⦠Iām trying not to look or sound too sad. Maybe itās not fair to get sad. Maybe itās not fair of us to exhibit those emotions that he himself never seemed to let on.Ā
"There are lots of kinds of people in this world. There are people who always let you know how they feel and there are other people who, whether or not they mean to, keep quiet and make you guess what they might be thinking.
"Now that weāre here, Iām wondering if there was something that he wanted to say that he just never had a chance to. He said so much through his roles in movies, maybe he was using his characters as a vessel to try to let something out that he as a person wasnāt capable ofā¦
"I guess itās no use wondering. We all know what kind of a person he was, and at the same time none of us really know. Or maybe one of us does, but the rest of us might never know. And Iām okay with that.Ā
"Iām okay with knowing what I do know about him, because the pieces of him that he shared with me were⦠sweet. I could have given more back to him than I did, I guess I could have tried not to take as much from him as I did. The fact that he was friends with me until the end, despite what kind of a person I am and despite the things that I did, should speak a lot for who he was behind his stoic face.
"Iāll really miss him, but Iām not going to be sad. Iāll just try to enjoy things a little more for him, and hope he can still taste the sweet things ā wherever he is."Ā