David J. O'Brien Jr.

17 years now and you are still missed my friend......Dave Thomson, Mike Bello and I wish you could join us for breakfast on Saturdays....Someday we will see each other again!

Today, as if I wasn't sad already, I decided to read all the wonderful thoughts from people who loved you. So, I sit here in work crying so hard but yet, I am so proud of you and who you were. It says a lot that 7 years later, people still talk about you and smile. While it is easier now to see your picture or read your prayer card, I am still so very sad and heartbroken. How proud you would be of your children. I know exactly the look that would be on your face when you talked about...

Every single person who loves you and continues to miss you has found a way (how is still beyond me) to get by each and every day without you. In the midst of taking it day by day and finding a way to go about an unnormal, unwanted path, it has brought us to 7 very long years. It scares me how slowly, how trudgedly, how long the time since you were taken from us has been. As I sit here with yet again the same exact feeling I had 7 years ago when I found out the news, I realize that NOTHING......

My heart is broken

Mama just surpassed you in 10 years of life. 10 years you got robbed of, and now I really realize the brokenness of the situation. The pain in the number 38 and realizing just how short your time here on Earth really was. 38 years was not enough time for us with you, but it eases me knowing you made those 38 years into every moment of life you could have gotten out of it. You lived those years better then some people do in double that, and for that I idolize you. Although you never made it to...

Time does not stop for me when that's all I need. Just a single frozen moment in this long journey, so that just for an instant, I can retrace you, and feel as if you are not carried away from me by time. But reality strikes me again in those dreams I wish, and only continues to go on without you, carrying me away with it, doing the only good of bringing me closer to you. In the end it will be worth it, but all the time taken from me in between will forever haunt my broken heart.

That "one day", where they say it gets easier, where they say the pain lessens, where they say you can finally accept it, when they say you're life will one day get used to the void, that "one day" has yet to come, 6 years and 9 months later. I'm realizing that one day will never come.

Haven't been able to write in here to you in awhile, and I'm sorry about that. It gets tough and nothing's ever "easier" even though its said to be with time. I've found out the hard way with a bunch of things, and one of those things is that it doesn't get better with time. If only I can go back 6 1/2 years ago, but why? When we've made it this far? All because time then was perfect. As I sit here with you and where you lay to rest, I can only hope you're on the same count down as me. "6 1/2...

Happy Father's Day to my one true guardian angel. That's what really makes a father the best