He Who Has Gone

Day 735, 01:46 • Published in South Africa South Africa • by Enoch Root
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~
"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."

I would like to call your attention today, to the eDeath of a friend.

Arjay Phoenician is leaving this world, to move on to the next. During his time here, he was a thinker, a dreamer, a philosopher, a hoper, an idealist, a mover, a shaker, a speaker, a writer, a leader, a friend, a worker, and a believer. Most importantly, he was a fighter.

Arjay fought for his ideas, held true to them, and he believed in them. He made a lot of friends, and a lot of enemies, but mostly, he gained a lot of respect. He didn't care who you were, he didn't apply a different standard to you because you had a title, or lacked one completely. When you talked to Arjay, you knew that any opinions being formed about you were based on the quality of your character alone.

It is a shame to lose such a thinker. No one agreed with Arjay 100% of the time, because he didn't mind telling you what you were doing wrong, and not everyone can take that sort of criticism. But, he spoke the truth as he saw it, as unbiasedly as he could, something the eWorld severely lacks. Very few people that read his articles and spoke to him would disagree on that.

I wholeheartedly agree with PigInZen, The eWorld will be a smaller, less interesting place without you Arjay.

~Wilfred Sheed, The Good Word, 1978~
"Suicide is... the sincerest form of criticism life gets."