special people

I’ve been noticing for quite a while, that there’s an increasing number of arrivals and departures in our circle of acquaintances. It’s just the way life is, friends bring children into the world, friends die.

Until recently the only funerals I attended were that of my great-grandmother and my grandparents who died from age or illness after a long and full life. Being in my mid-thirties now, I guess, I’ll have to start to get used to attending more funerals than christenings or baby-parties.

We met a friend of ours last night for a pizza after work and we knew his wife has been ill for quite a while, but he told us last night, his wife lost her fight against cancer on Easter sunday (April 8th 2007).

It is still quite a shock, as she was a very lifely person, full of enthusiam, full of positive energy and most of the time with a smile on her face. I’m not sure she made it past 40 but anyway, her losing her battle makes me truly sad.

I’m not sure if it was a quote but during our conversation he said a sentence which I keep pondering over since. He said: “Special people never leave completely”

It’s so true, she was a special person and we will definetly remember her, because she was the one who talked me into attending a Chapter RheinMain MINI meet for the first time. And look where it took me: now I’m one of the admins of the mini² community

We lost another mini ethusiast and former forums moderator to cancer last year. She also was very charismatic and powerful woman of 41 when she lost her fight. I didn’t know her as well as our friend who passed away two weeks ago, but her death also greaved me, as she left a husband and two fabulous kids behind.

Seeing people suffer from cancer and slowly passing away makes me feel really helpless.

3 or 4 years ago, I donated my idle computing power at home to the United Devices (later renamed to GRID.org) project. I stopped doing that because I didn’t want to upgrade my PC to the newest bleeding edge technology everytime and the worktasks kept taking longer and longer to complete and finally were rejected from the server because I failed to keep the time constraints as I stopped running my PCs 24/7 at home. I was particularly fond of the cancer research project.

I haven’t decided yet, but I’m considering to reactivate my account and pick the cancer research project again, as there’s not much else I can do to fight against cancer.

I know it’s to late for our friends but maybe it’ll help others.

So I guess it’s time to say good bye or rather a see you later. Keep on motoring.