I had been taking some time off BL lately, but herby told me last night and my jaw dropped as fast as my tears fell. Another beautiful soul moves on, another beautiful that, in celebration of his life as we currently are, can teach us ways we can be better people too. We can learn how to love ourselves in the ways that we loved Sepher. I think a l lot of us in TDS/RS saw some of ourselves in him. I just hope he knew that a lot of these were positive things we saw.
I miss your drunken PMs (from way back), and then you'd apologise the next day. That's like something I would do. I remember talking with you very personally about a kink we shared, and you gave me great advice on that as well. And, you amazing friend, you taught me loads of great new music, and introduced me into new scenes I now have in my life.
You beat heroin years and years (I think over a decade ago), and that, no matter what other battles you have had since, is amazing in itself. You did it, and I hope we can all find those writings of yours of how you did it. You also beat lots of judgment for alternative ways you lived. And even those nights you felt worst and like the lowest of the low men, you had strengths that many men who appear strong do not.
You are humble and yet you were able to be assertive when you needed to. Unafraid to ask for questions, unafraid to share answers when people don't even ask what you want to say. Anytime I tried to describe a unique beauty to you, you understood right away from where I came. You were more than a man, sepher, you were a man united with the beautiful forces that exist in ways a lot of us cannot even begin to understand. You would have been my best friend had we lived in the same town, and I would have always been there for you at your worst. Wish I couldn't have been right now, I wish I could have seen you post one more time. But I know that it would just say "guys, don't worry. I love you all and I will be okay.
I know we both shared a love for The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I was just reading it again, actually. So an strange turn of events. So let me share a quote from the story:
"We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture."
For an actor going on cold, you warmed a lot of our hearts. Mine included.
Peace & Love to everyone. We lost a friend, we grew stronger as other friends. Love you, Sepher.
