• IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    49·
    7 days ago

    I remember reading about something along those lines a few years ago.

    When we were kids running around with our childhood friends every summer, we thought it would never end, that we would be and stay friends forever.

    Then one day, we run home, wave goodbye and say ‘see you later!’ … and without us knowing, or being aware of it, that was the last time we saw our childhood friend.

    We might have lived next to one another, or went to the same high school later on or even went to the same college … we never saw our friend again.

    We never knew and we were never aware of when we said goodbye or saw our friend for the last time.

    I think about my old childhood friends … I’m middle aged now … some of those friends died young, some got married and had a bunch of kids … a few had hard lives and became addicts … one of them is a vegetable after having suffered an overdose … and many of them just went on and had small families and did OK.

    • wheezy@lemmy.ml
      17·
      6 days ago

      For most of human history children would be right to think this. Most people never left the town they grew up in. I think there is a bit of sad beauty to kids assuming they’ll always be friends.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    36·
    6 days ago

    I know someone who killed themself, his mum logged into his account to tell me as she remembered him saying my name quite a bit. That was not a conversation I was prepared for.

  • Cikos@lemmy.world
    34·
    6 days ago

    a close friend of mine from highschool died of cancer.

    last online 9 years ago, i miss those dota matches with him.

  • robocall@lemmy.world
    19·
    6 days ago

    I befriended someone online through a video game and we became steam friends. We talked a lot about the game, but also non game topics. When one of us went AFK for awhile the other would check in and ask what was new in life. We wished each other happy birthday and holidays. One time I mentioned to him that my spouse would inform him if something unexpected happened to me, like I got hit by a bus or something. And I asked him to do the same because I would wonder forever. He wasn’t comfortable with it. But that guy is still my buddy IMO even though I don’t know his real name.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    12·
    6 days ago

    I run an online D&D game with people I don’t know IRL, and I just kinda accept that one day I’m probably going to have a heart attack and disappear, and that’s okay.

      • iSeth@lemmy.ml
        11·
        6 days ago

        IRL people know where you live and can check the paper for an obituary. I think OP is saying that none of their players will know what happened.

        OP, you can have your server notified in a will.