Marina 33

We talked a lot about a various of different things this week that I could easily talk about in this blog. But instead I wan to take a minute and talk about something that I just read 5 minutes ago. 

As I was scrolling through facebook, like do on an hourly bases, something caught my attention. It was a status by this girl, whom I havent seen since highschool, and it said RIP Marina and then had a link below. I clicked on the link and started reading this tribute to this girl who recently died in a car crash. 

I have lost five friends over the years, and whenever I see a status that says RIP in it, my heart stops. Its one of the worst feelings to loss someone close to you and not understand why. Why did this have to happen to such a great person and why so young?

As I was reading this beautiful tribute, to someone whom I have never meet, I got chills. The tribute goes on to explain how great a person this girl was:  "we were honestly blessed to have had her voice."

but what caught my attention and the reason for why I am blogging about this is when she wrote:

  "I hate the Internet when it comes to death. It’s so easy to grow morbidly obsessed, to fall down the rabbit hole of Facebook posts and hateful comments and crash reports. But I love how the body of fantastic work that Marina produced in twenty-two years is accessible through a simple Google search."

I have read this line over and over again in my head and shes right. Technology is a fantastic thing when it comes to allowing someone to continue to live through the work they have produced on the internet. Friends facebook pages still live on, even if they dont. I have friends who I continue to write to through facebook. Idk why, maybe I think they can hear me. Its like visiting a grave, stopping by just to say hello, letting them know that we have not forgotten them. It so easy to get caught up in the internet and everything that is flying around out there, but every now and then I stop and think how wonderful it really is. I am allowed to look back and see my friends, however its just pictures and videos, but I get to remember. I miss my friends dearly but getting to visit them through the internet is nice sometimes, just to say hello or how much i miss them, or maybe share a story. 

For Marina, her friends can still look at her facebook page and read the beautiful stories she wrote and it is all possible because of the internet. 

I posted the link below because i thought it was beautiful written and wanted to share this girls stoy with someone else. 

http://alannabean.tumblr.com/post/23957934265/marina