#teamkaleb

It is honestly tearing me apart realizing that we really need to appreciate every tiny thing in life. I just had a good family friend named Kaleb pass away of cancer at ONLY 16! His mom just posted on Facebook on my brother's page how importnant he was Kaleb and that he was his best friend (even though we hadn't seen him in like 5 years because they moved until we got to visit him recently). I AM SO GLAD that we got to see him and visit him a few weeks ago. He truly was an awesome young man and my few memories (few because I was kind young when he lived here and would come over.) of him make me smile and I just know that when he and my brother would hang out that they were always laughing and having a good time. One thing I remember of him is one time when he was aat our house I had this 'brats' doll head that was almost a life size head and Kaleb had a sweat shirt on and he pulled it up a little bit and put the fake head in and we all had fun and laughed together. Another big memory I have is when he came over he would practice the beginning of the black parade on our piano. After about 4 or 5 years when we came and visited him in the hospital where he stayed for chemo he told us tha at he finally learned that song!! It made me so happy! That was so cool!!! When we saw him it was a surprise for him and he was so happy to see Mathias (my brother) and it was only me, mathias and my mom and he was so nice and asked where my other brother and sisters were, my other brither was at something for school and my other sisters are already out of highschool. The point is, kaleb had a lot of reasons to be sad and have a negative attitude but he was COMPLETELY THE OPPOSITE!!! He was happy and excited abd shared stories and my brother is in a band and kaleb's mom said in that post that he sked for a guitar for christmas so that he could jam with Mathias! I'm so sad that we didn't get to see him again, we ere planning in going down again (only an hour south to the hospital he was in) soon but we didn't know that he was that bad, or else we would have been there immediately. Kaleb made the best of his time and had an amazing attitude, and I think we should too. Little things go a long way, and they can also be gone in a second. I don't think we can ever really be prepared for losing someone, but something we can do is make the best out if our time with them.

This game is so intense I can't concentrate on my talk