*sad*

[dr4b]

i didn't really know ashley campbell *that* well, now that i think about it. he showed up as a freshman in KGB when i was a fifth-year-senior and was a little bit jaded with KGB as an organization. i used to sit in the back of MM103 with him and brad hamner and neil lareau, and i'd read the tartan and make silly jokes with them. because his name's ash AND campbell, we made a lot of army of darkness jokes. it was cool.

later i saw him get involved in senate, and in campus in general. and whenever i saw him he was always smiling and joking, and posting insightful and witty things to cmu.misc.market (unlike 95% of the rest of the posts there). my impression of him never ever strayed from him just being a very very good person.

i don't know how he died because the post to cmu news didn't say, it just says he passed away on may 15, but i'm honestly saddened by his passing, even though i don't think i'd even spoken to him in person in about two years. i think he touched a LOT of people's lives in his time at CMU. sigh.

(thanks to skydiamonde... i wouldn't have even known if she hadn't mentioned it, since i hadn't checked CMU bboards in a while. bleh.)

Comments

[meerkatzukin.livejournal.com]

Why is it always sad when someone hears that a person they barely know dies? What is it that we have in common with these people we barely even talked to? IS it just the whole "you're a human, I'm a human" thing? Maybe it's because they represented a part of your past you thought you had forgotten, but thanks in part to that person, you start to remember?

In either case, it's always sad when someone you know or someone you slightly know dies. Maybe the reason for being sad is that you never got to know them any better than you did.

Whoa. I'm actually having a deep thought. I'd better check my blood sugar level again...

[cellio]

In this case there might be a "but he was so young!" thing going on.