henry i’ve been thinking about you a lot recently. i know most of the time people lose touch with the friends they had in high school after a few years but there’s always the comfort in knowing that they’re there somewhere in the world. it’s a gut wrenching feeling when you cross my mind when i think about high school memories and i get the hard realization that you’re not off somewhere in the world on an adventure. it’s hard to think that your adventure ended when the rest of ours began. i can’t even imagine the life you’d be living right now, i know it would’ve been an amazing one. but i see you in the most amazing places, i think of you when im doing something that scares the shit out of me like surfing giant waves, sketchy hiking trails that are definitely illegal, at the summit of those hikes when my knees feel weak because i’m terrified of heights, jumping off of rappel towers for work, or when something so incredibly cool happens like successfully riding a wave i thought would crush me, the beauty in the jungle where i live, the mountain view on my evening runs, and every time i see an insanely tall man with a head full of blonde hair for a split second i think it’s you. you were a kind soul who touched so many hearts including my own and made the greatest impact on so many of our lives. i hope you’re living it up, up there big guy but i miss you.