While you're making plans

While you're making plans to do things tomorrow or next week or next year....

I got a message from a friend over the Thanksgiving break saying that her only brother has died suddenly.
He went to the dentist the day before Thanksgiving, had a reaction to the medication and blink Trey was gone.
Gone.

I remember him smiling. In my 20s I had the biggest crush on him.... I'd hang out with her and her mom and Trey would come by for something or just to harass his sister.

I was sad hearing the news, am sad still for her, her brother and her family. They've been through a lot and I believe her mother died suddenly on or near a holiday also.
Her parents have been divorced most of the decades I've known her, then her mother passed away quickly and without warning and now her brother.

My friend learned after his death that he was planning to fly to Mexico to get married the following weekend. (They weren't close, but not because my friend didn't want to have a close relationship with him.)


It's but some areas of my life in a clearer perspective...all those things I've put off and put off and said that I'd maybe get to later. Supposed there is no "later"?