Above: Shane and best friend Taylor Kirkland. (View larger image)
Above: Shane and Taylor drinking
non-alcoholic apple cider on
New Year's Eve 2007.
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Remembering Our Time Together
Thoughts from Shane's Best Friend
by Taylor Kirkland
It's been several months since Shane passed away, and I'm still trying to learn to live with it. We did everything together. Doing off-the-wall random things is what we enjoyed best. Like the New Years Eve we got "drunk" off of non-alcoholic apple cider. We ALWAYS had a good time together. Even through the good, bad and down right funny. I feel like he is still watching us all every day. Let us not forget the times we shared with Shane. He taught me what being and having a best friend was all about. We often joked how we were brothers with different Mothers and Fathers.
I question often: of all the people to be taken why did it have to be Shane? People say things happen for a reason, and I've yet to find the reason why. Part of healing will be to figure it out. He was a true joy to have in my life. I would trade anything to have him back here with us. I've had to make a lot of adjustments in my life, and it will never be the same. I planned my life with him in it. We would graduate high school, be roommates, marry best friends and be neighbors. Our children would grow up to be friends too. Where do I go from here? Right now, I'm not sure, just taking it one day at a time. I do know he's in a better place and that I have to live my life so that one day I can be in that better place with him. I'm sure we will be "roomies" there. Let us not forget the times we all shared with Shane. It can be painful but at the same time, you got to smile when he crosses your mind. Losing him has taught me to remember to NEVER take anyone for granted. Treat every day like it's your last.
God bless you.
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