MikeIke
Footballguy
First of all: this is not about a FBG dying. I don't want to alarm anyone.
We've lost several FBG's over the years and I've seen the outpouring of community support when it happens. I've felt bad but it's never affected me very personally because I had no prior relationship with the deceased.
Today I got word that one of my iFriends in an online game I play had died. The game is Castle Clash. I am a guild leader and Tommy was one of my Vice Leaders. He'd been in the hospital for several weeks and I'd had no communication with him. He hasn't logged into the game for 15 days.
Today, we got a message in the chat room that Tommy had died the previous week. I guess his family had opened his phone and taken the time to go through his messages to let people know that he was gone.
This has affected me WAY more than I would have expected . I've been in a funk all day. I've never met this guy. He was a 28 year old In England, I'm a 43 year old in America. We had nothing in common other than the game we both played.
Yet, I cried when I heard of his death.
It's strange how we can be affected by the deaths of people we've never met. I cried when Chance died. I cried When Connor died. I cried when Riley died. But those were more sadness about a child dying, and seeing how it affected the parents.
This is a friend of mine, whom I've "known" for almost 4 years. Even though I've never met him, I will miss him.
I just find it odd how profoundly you can be affected by the death of someone you've ever met. Other than that, I don't have any real point to make. Thanks for hearing me out, FBG's.
We've lost several FBG's over the years and I've seen the outpouring of community support when it happens. I've felt bad but it's never affected me very personally because I had no prior relationship with the deceased.
Today I got word that one of my iFriends in an online game I play had died. The game is Castle Clash. I am a guild leader and Tommy was one of my Vice Leaders. He'd been in the hospital for several weeks and I'd had no communication with him. He hasn't logged into the game for 15 days.
Today, we got a message in the chat room that Tommy had died the previous week. I guess his family had opened his phone and taken the time to go through his messages to let people know that he was gone.
This has affected me WAY more than I would have expected . I've been in a funk all day. I've never met this guy. He was a 28 year old In England, I'm a 43 year old in America. We had nothing in common other than the game we both played.
Yet, I cried when I heard of his death.
It's strange how we can be affected by the deaths of people we've never met. I cried when Chance died. I cried When Connor died. I cried when Riley died. But those were more sadness about a child dying, and seeing how it affected the parents.
This is a friend of mine, whom I've "known" for almost 4 years. Even though I've never met him, I will miss him.
I just find it odd how profoundly you can be affected by the death of someone you've ever met. Other than that, I don't have any real point to make. Thanks for hearing me out, FBG's.
I've made several friends from interacting via Twitter. Some of those friends, I've gotten to meet IRL. Some of them have helped get me through some dark times in life. So I get it. We may group them into the category of iFriends, but in reality they're just friends. And like Curly said, sometimes they're better friends than RL "friends." Sorry for the loss of your friend, Mike. 
