This post has nothing remotely happy in it. I'm serious. I just wanted to get some advice on some things, and I figured this is the best place to do so. So, if you don't like listening to sob (literally) stories, hit your backspace button now.

Three day weekends are supposed to be all happy and wonderful and relaxing. But the thing is, on Saturday, one of my friends who was on the school newspaper with me passed away when she got into a car accident with three other people. She was a senior in my high school and about to graduate in 5 months, but she'll never make it. And this incident happened only one day shy of a month after a freshman - also in my class - passed away in wrestling practice, when school had already let out for winter break. Oh, the cruel irony.

What do I do when everything I've ever believed in becomes so horribly ripped away? I'm not saying I was naive, but this is the first time that I've had to experience knowing two people who passed on in such a small time frame. What should I believe? I feel like life has cheated me from knowing happiness in any form. I know it sounds selfish, what I'm talking about now, when so many other people are dying every day. It's just that it's never been this close to home before. What do I do? How do I act? What happens now?

R.I.P. Tammy.