Memorial’s over, legal rustle’s over, all we have left is some bizarre feeling of hope, at least from this quarter.
Everything was beautiful, we played all the songs he liked and we knew, the priest had this bible passage and for a moment there I actually wished I wasn’t so cynical towards religion. I liked that. So many people attended all of them having met Evan at some point and it made me realize how popular he was, back in school it was always the three of us, however there was always somebody who didn’t belong to our little assembly and yet was welcomed to tourist a little, all of those people dropped by.
Susan, Evan’s big sister, announced that her baby is gonna be named after Evan, and that she had her hopes up for him because if that family had managed to raise an Evan, then her child was coming to a good place. Right about then I started to cry like a freakin’ baby. Max too, although he hid it better than me. And so we cried trough the rest of the ceremony, and suddenly I was standing there, on front of all those persons to say my speech, my legs shook a little and my heart wanted to go live elsewhere, but I held my ground and by the time I was done, all shyness had abandoned Max and he was openly crying. It was beautiful, not his tears, or what I said, but Evan’s mom’s face when she hugged me and told me she loved me so much, and she knew I’d be alright.
Evan always said I was a survivor, today I believe him. I feel empty, I have no more tears to cry, even though I’d cry if I could, I always read about it and honestly didn’t understand it, didn’t know how it was possible that someone ran out of tears, and now that I experience it, its more like I’m so tired of crying that I can’t do it anymore. I think I’m mostly numbed and eventually the whole weight of this will fall and I’m gonna crash and burn a little, or a lot. Don’t know, don’t care, when it happens, it will happen. I’ll deal then. Right now I’m hopeful, because I feel like I can do this, I can survive this; it will take a while to get used to not doing things I used to do for Evan, I might have to relearn how to do things I used to do with him, but ultimately I’ll manage.
I kinda wonder when is it gonna hit me. Maybe when Sunday arrives and I get no phone call from him to check on Max, or maybe next time I eat an apple, and how will that taste? Grainy? Juicier? I have a lot of questions of the like, but I have this answer that works for most of them: Evan has moved on, so should I. So will I.
Today sucks because it’s the first day without Evan, I’m alone now, and I think I could cry some more, don’t want to though, my head aches from all the crying I’ve done. Possibly if Evan were alive I would be on the phone or over at the clinic or annoying Max until he walked me there. Now I’m posting this to do something with my time, so I guess that I’ll figure things out as they come. I’ve never made too many plans for the future and I don’t feel like starting now.
I have all this thoughts on life and mankind and all that stuff, and its not half as bad as I thought it would be. Yesterday I was angry, then I got to cool off (Thanks
roguemouse again) and I got to give some perspective to things. They are screwed up beyond repair right now, but I think that’s a good thing, because Evan’s gone, so nothing will ever be the same again, I don’t want them to, so the logical thing would be to adapt to that change, it will be difficult, but I do think I can make it. And I don’t mean it in an automatic kinda way, but actually thinking about what I do, knowing what I do. Its weird, but somehow death has made me think that despite the arbitrary way of life, there are a few things that I can control, like what to do with what I’m handed, what to get out of the experiences I0m put through; I wanna do that. That’s what’s got me so hopeful today. Maybe tomorrow I’ll be a heap of clothes on the bathroom floor, crying again, angry again or maybe not. I’m sad, shaken, lethargic, hopeful, and grateful today, and that’s all that matters right now. Today. I'm still due to some crying, just not right now. And I'm fine with that. Wonder if I've become a conformist or something equally annoying to come across.
P.S.: will come back to this and post the speech, because Max convinced me that I had to, because it was part of my promise. But I won’t do it today, gotta wait until is not so personal anymore. Or until Evan’s ghost starts to haunt me and I have no other choice. Whichever comes first.