20.9.06

Budejales

I participated as a volunteer to Budejales - a regular festival to give more energy to the Budejovicka plaza. It's the plaza where my school is, so that's why.
Scorpion lured me there. We talked quite a bit (and I really needed it, as I hadn't been thoroughly talking to someone for quite a while).
I would write more about details - but I got to know something...
Well - I met there my former classmates from the elementary school - Gajana and Erno. Actually I mostly spoke to Gajana. We haven't seen each other for ages - so just simply - how are you doing, what are you doing etc. Eventually we began talking about other former classmates. But then:
Gaja: "You remember Miro (in fact, his real name was Thanh Binh, but nevermind) Nguyen, don't you?"
"Sure I do; I even met him some two years ago. He's going to a bilingual German - Czech high school, isn't he?"
"Well... He committed suicide, a few months ago."
What???????? Impossible!!!!!!!
He'd never had problems in the school. Actually he used to be one of the best students. Yet he should have done it because he'd been expelled from the school.
He was the first person I considered a real friend. Every time I was speaking of my past, I was mentioning him so.
Something ceases to be, something other emerges.
The normal course of the world.
He ceased to be.
But I can't help mourning.

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