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Goodbye Noel - please pass soon brother
9 years ago
Earlier this week one of my best buddies and roommate Noel Gonzalez was in a car accident. Yesterday I got the news that he won't be coming home. He's in a really bad way and he's not going to wake up. The thing that keeps tearing my fucking heart out is he is so loved by literally hundreds of people. He's one of the best men I've ever met and I can't think of a single person who didn't welcome him into their hearts and homes with open arms. He had just joined mine and Jordan's. We were supposed to be looking for a house when they came home next week. He was an amazing person, I've rarely ever even seen him unhappy in a way that he didn't actively try to change. Even when he was upset he would aggressively reach and do anything to make the change to make the world happy again. Even in a town with no friends he would go out every night to meet new people at a bar and flirt. Instead of sitting on a couch and watching tv he would rather be biking or hiking. Nature was his home and everything was his playground. At 41 I've never met a stronger and more outgoing person. Most of the people that met him would have sworn he was in his twenties despite the grey hairs. His facebook page is full of over a hundred people with hundreds more by proxy waiting on news to see their friend again and right now I have to sit with the knowledge that he's gone and wait for his family to tell the rest. My only wish is that he passes soon so that he's not trapped here in this and all the people that are going to be hurt by this can feel it and begin to heal. For someone who can't stand sitting in the house all day, a life hooked to machines where he'd be lucky to open his eyes on his own is no life at all. If there is anything after this life, he deserves that adventure. He deserves to wander after life like he did when he was in it. He needs to be able to see the people he missed when he was here.
I get to put this here because it doesn't connect with my social media and none of my pirate brothers and sisters knows about this page but I have to get this out. This hurts so fucking bad.
After nearly two weeks of battle Noel has finally passed today. Even last week he had to go and prove how badass he really was. Tuesday he stopped breathing on his own and Wednesday they removed him from the machines. He was pronounced dead only to come back breathing stronger than when he was on the machines and he lived for three more days. Went and died just so he could die twice. Incredible all the way to the end. If something like a car was going to take you out, you had to make it interesting.
I love you buddy. Noel Gonzalez 9/8/74 - 8/13/16
I get to put this here because it doesn't connect with my social media and none of my pirate brothers and sisters knows about this page but I have to get this out. This hurts so fucking bad.
After nearly two weeks of battle Noel has finally passed today. Even last week he had to go and prove how badass he really was. Tuesday he stopped breathing on his own and Wednesday they removed him from the machines. He was pronounced dead only to come back breathing stronger than when he was on the machines and he lived for three more days. Went and died just so he could die twice. Incredible all the way to the end. If something like a car was going to take you out, you had to make it interesting.
I love you buddy. Noel Gonzalez 9/8/74 - 8/13/16
sorry to hear about this buddy.
I hope everything turns out okay in the end.
I know I'm positive in most of the wrong moments
to be that way, but you know me.
my thoughts go out to you and for your friend.
He was an unreal person, I've never met anyone so positive in my life. He truly lived for experiences and his very few belongings are very real proof of that. His ties to this world were the hundreds of people in his life and the experiences they shared. I remember him showing us that Star Wars card when he moved in and he was beaming like a little kid with the coolest thing you'd ever see to show you. Looking back now, he wasn't wrong in that thought because it was sheer happiness of being able to share with people. It wasn't the card in his hand, it was the joy from seeing someone smile. He was such a character even typing this out it doesn't sound like it could be real, there is no one like that on the planet and yet for nearly 5 short years I got to meet this man and for a few short months share my home with him. I had so looked forward to all of the work that we were going to be doing and the crazy shit we were going to do on our time off and it has been a fucking hard pill to swallow to know that I don't get to do that anymore. What I feel is nothing compared to the mind breaking trauma of those that had to be there when it happened. Jordan is handling this really hard having been there to watch the accident and the moments after it and the guy that had been driving the car is a wreck. I can't fathom their pain right now because my final memory of Noel gets to be hugging him on his way out and telling him be safe and I'd see him in a few weeks as he smiled and rode away. Theirs is nothing remotely like that. If his body lasts the next month he will pass at 43 but hopefully he can let go much sooner. Testament to how incredibly resilient of a person he was in body and mind that he's not gone already.
i wish I had something to say to all that,
but all I can say is my condolences, he sounds
like an amazing human being.
your lucky to have shared something real
like that with someone.
try to stay positive buddy,
I'm sure your friend would've wanted
you to be strong in that right.