Welcome to the people I’ve added to my flist thanks to the SMT friending meme. A bit of a depressing first post, but I need to get his of my chest. The last couple of days I have been really busy, writing reports for school and my internship, about ethics and all that stuff. Yesterday I wanted to play some SMT: IMAGINE, just to get my mind of the work and relax a bit. When I came online I was reminded how easy it is to lose contact with each other, without ever knowing what happened to someone. So for all the people on my flist who knew RedSonya and even for those who didn’t.
Later on I remembered something someone on LJ once asked me. “If someone you know over the internet disappears one day, will you miss that person, or won’t you even notice?” Internet bonds are fragile, if one person was too disappear, it would be hard/impossible to find him/her again. I mean Sonya lived in the same country as I did, perhaps even very close, but I would have never known that something happened to him, if his brother hadn’t shown up. I suppose it’s the reason I have a note with all my username’s and passwords lying around, so that if something were to ever happen, at least my parents/friends could make it known.
As much as it hurts, I’m glad Sonja’s brother searched for us and told us he passed away. Else people would have just forgotten, thought that he was tired of the game and quit without saying anything, which would have been far worse. I’m not looking forward to Sunday, most of Sonja’s friends are online then and I know I have to tell them, they have just as much a right to know what happened to him as I did.
So rest in peace Sonja, you were a great guy, always willing to help out, always enthusiastic, a good friend, I even remember planning to do stuff last Friday with you and the rest of the clan. You will be sorely missed.
My thoughts go out to your parents and your brother/siblings, who have lost you far to early.