A little background about my job, I work at a university at our alumni office. I sometimes take calls regarding Alumni requesting information on friends they have lost touch with. Today I recieved a call such as this one, I looked up his friend and had to tell him that unfortunately his friend had passed away. He immediately started to choke up and I felt awful. I told the man I was sorry and tried my best to console him. He thanked me and simply said, “Well that’s life.” He hung up and I continued my search for more information on his deceased friend. I found an obituary online that matched and called him back. I told him he passed away a couple of years ago and he asked if I could email him the obituary. I did. He called back about 10 minutes later. “This isn’t my friend, his last name only has one N in it.” I was relieved but realized at the same time how much pain I just put this man through. He was looking for a friend whom he had lost touch with in college, they were roommates, he had been his best man in his wedding, and I just lied to him and told him he died. He’s still searching for his lost friend and I wish him all the best.
I decided to change the theme of my tumblog because I was too lazy to figure out how to actually make it look good. Maybe someday I’ll mess around with it and figure shit out. Maybe now that the semester is over I’ll start getting stuff done on my to-do list. Probably not though, I’ll just talk about it and never actually accomplish anything. I will get that shit done. I’m determined to make my life successful as possible and nothing is going to stop me. I wonder if everyone feels like this when they are in their 20’s.
Working out the Bugs
I’ve finally got comments up on here now just to get some damn traffic. Note to self: Be more interesting. Btw thanks to Disqus for the comments tool.