And this is the rest of
our lives.
I woke up to the most
horrible news today. I met a guy when I was 19. He was friendly, funny and the
most welcoming person I had seen at that time. It was then that I decided,
"He's going to be something HUGE." Was it the way he spoke or the way
he analyzed everything, I still don't know. All I know is I never remained
friends with him and today, he is not there anymore. His talent, his words and
his sense of humor are all going to be linked with the past now. As of today,
Zain Haider is dead. A debater, an actor and a genuinely nice human being, I
guess all he had was this little time to make us all laugh, to awe us with his
talent and then, well, walk away.
Perhaps obituaries will
be written on Facebook, names will become hashtags, a text message will circulate
and then we will all move on. We will occasionally remember him, shed a tear
and we will move on. We won't come out of the bubble we are creating or fear
God that ours might be the next name spreading like wild fire. We will still
write notes on social media of thank yous and sorrys but we won't come up in
person and say it all. People deserve more than that, our friends and family
deserve more than that. We deserve to be more than a name as a hashtag with
everyone's condolences. Zain Haider deserved to be much more than the 'LSE boy
who passed away at 25'
Well done, world.
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