'Be a Man'?

Those who follow me on YouTube may want to hear this.

Reverb Brony sent me this and I thought it was appropriate to post it here, given the nature of the brony community. Thoughts?

Comments

[KelGrym]

Aaron.

I've got those emails too. I have to confess. At first when I started getting Ray's emails I suddenly got the growing suspicion that Ray and Aaron were the same. Call me jaded, even though I didn't want to believe it I was starting to think that it was another case of someone just sending out one sad report after another just for attention. I had time to consider my suspicions and now I don't think that's the case. Kinda feel like a dick, but can you blame me considering how many fakes are out there? It started to feel a little unreal how one tragedy after another befell Aaron, however for some people that's exactly how it is. Anyways, everything that happened to Aaron was terrible. Man went through a lot of shit, but at the very least he's at peace now. Can't imagine how terrible it must have been for Ray to have to pull the plug like that.

My sister told me once that life has always been hard. It was a different kind of hard in her day than it is in our day (she's in her 40's) but it's still hard. Some people have it harder than others but everyone suffers shit on some level or degree and the universe is completely unbiased in who it chooses to bless or screw over...but it never seems fair.

The only thing we can do is persevere, trudge on, and never give up. I remember when I was out on my own in a co-dependent relation with a guy I still have mixed feelings about, after I lost my car, my job, and my cash. I was living in a crap trailer without any a/c in the middle of summer with nasty meth-head neighbors and spending whatever cash we could make on too much pot and not enough food. I had a lot of suicidal thoughts going through my head then because I never experienced that kind of life before...but I survived.

Never give up. Ever. Learn from your mistakes, make the right friends, handle the little things and the big things will take care of themselves. Dwelling on the problem never helps. Reflect on it and march forward.

My best wishes to Ray, his family, Pounce, your mother and you Scribbler.

Strive.

[Wacky]

I'm said to hear of Aaron's passing. He most definitely went thru some hard times and I can at least say that it's good to know he's at rest.

Scribbler, you've touched so many with your words, bringing light to unknown strangers when things were at their darkest for them. I hope I may offer some words that will help you...

If I may paraphrase an old saying, "When you're born, you cry and then world laughs. If you've lived your life right, when you die you'll laugh and the world will cry."

Because of you, there are more people crying today, and that's the first time I've ever said that in a positive and uplifting way in the entirety of my 34 years on this planet.

Well done.

[Emerald Comet]

I don't know how you do it Scribbler but you get me every time with videos like these with your words.

My best wishes to Ray, Aaron's family, your family and you.

May Aaron rest in peace.

[Horse Voice]

I've lost friends to cancer before. No matter how often it happens, one never really gets used to it.

Be strong, my friend.

People that we loose- even indirectly- affects us, hurts us. Leaves a hole where regard lived, and now pain occupies a room in your chest. Memory hurts, but their impression, their influence which they left still remains.
"Never say good bye, then you're never really gone. You're just not here right now."

"Life is hard, it's the thing that kills you in the end."
I Bottle up, because I that is all I know how to do.
"Be a man." That model whom we are to aspire to and mocked till we reach the likeness.
"A man is not defined by who he is, but what he chooses to be."

[Autum Breeze]

this really hurt.

i haven't been able to use the computer for a while, yesterday being the first time, and when i saw you'd posted an update on aaron, i wanted to find out what had happened, but at that moment my internet decided to bugger off, so i had to wait til now to watch that video and post my comment.

... i can't say i feel the worst i could. i blame that on my brain injury. ever since it happened, no matter how close someone is to me or how touched i am by their story, when they go, i feel nothing, followed by absolute guilt for feeling nothing.

even now, when i know every time i thought of aaron, i wanted to give him some words of comfort, i knew, in my heart, when he left us, I'd feel detached again.

i can say though, that while this time the detachment feeling is there, there is also a sadness i am surprised is there. i know I have mlp and fimfiction to thank for that. mlp fics helped me feel as sad as i should have at my grandfather's passing last year thanks to My Little Dashie. it opened a floodgate of emotions i wasn't even sure i still possessed.

and now, knowing aaron is gone, though i don't feel a sad as i know I should, i do feel sadder than i did about 12 minutes ago.

when i saw this video was an update on aaron, i wanted it to be good news, even though in my heart, i knew it was bad and it hurt so much as soon as the reality sunk in.

we will all miss you aaron. may you rest in peace.