R.I.P. Robin Williams: Goodnight, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest... · 8:32pm Aug 11th, 2018

I remember when I saw those images on Twitter the day after... I cried like a little kid. I felt like I'd lost a father. Robin was my hero when I was small; he was a man that brought me smiles in the worst of times. He was the one who made my childhood with movies like Aladin and Ms. Doubtfire. He was the greatest man in the world, to a nine-year-old me.

Now I look at some things he said and it hurts all the more, knowing the pain going on inside him. I wish I could have let him know the good he did to a little me. All the times he made me laugh and smile. All the times he made the world bearable. All the times he cheered me up in the face of all the sadness and loss.

Gods, I'm crying, even as I write this. I don't cry for very much. I didn't cry when my grandmother died. I didn't cry when my best friend's mother, who was like a second mother to me, died... I'm not a man prone to emotional weakness - I'm always the stalwart one, holding up those who can't hold themselves up - but this hurts. I've never really sat down and thought about what the loss of this giant meant to me and my life. It hurts so much to say these things, but they're so true... It cuts deeper than any knife... I miss all the joy you brought me. I miss my childhood. I miss you, Robin Williams. I miss you so goddamn much...

I hope, wherever you are, you're making people smile. I hope that you're happy and are bringing joy, as you always did. Gods, I need to go sit down for a while and think about things...

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