Everyone's Love For You Still Firmly Flourishes
Matt...
...I believe deeply that you are happier where you are now; I pray that you
are. Please know that everyone's love for you still firmly flourishes and we
miss that beautiful, humorous, smiling you. Matt, I continuously see your warm
smile in front of me asking me to watch you swim the other night. Next thing I
know, your arms are flying and waving from across the pool to me...yes, Matt I
was watching you. You did wonderfully. Perhaps someone should have seen the hurt
inside of you this past while, or maybe God meant it to be this way. Matt, I
strongly believe that you are doing whatever you love to do right now where ever
you are, without the pain. That makes me smile. I love you and know that
everyone always felt and feels the same.
-A Friend
Dear Matt
I didn't know you too well but I looked up to you. I saw you swimming and I
saw you with your friends. I always thought you we a great person.
-A Junior
I Will Never Forget You
Matt,
I will never forget you.
You were a great swimmer, student, and role model.
Everyone always said how great you were and talked about you very positively.
I do not know what else to say, but I miss you.
I hope where you are know, you like better.
-Anonymous
You Will Always Be In Our Spirits and Our Hearts
Matt-
I grew up playing sports with
you...I joked in class with you... I talked to you in the hallways. No
matter what you were doing at the time, you were never too busy to say hello, or
cheer me up. That is why came as such a surprise. You were so committed to
helping others that you didn't help yourself. I only wish you knew how much you meant
to me and everyone else. You are the glue that holds everyone around you
together. If you only knew this. Though you may be gone in body, you will always
be in our spirits and our hearts.
WE'LL MISS YOU...
-A Friend
You Will Be An Important Part Of My Life For As Long As I Live
~Matt
I wish I could say you were one of my good friends.
But you weren't. But I was your classmate, and in my heart....I'll always
believe we were friends. I can't believe that you're life was cut so
short... so quickly. It is so hard to fathom that your life could have
been so stressful and so tough, that you would end it all so quickly. It
makes me so angry because you were such a miraculous person. If only you
could see how many people reached out and how many people care for you. I
wish I could have known you better... maybe helped cope with the pain that we
all feel on a day to day basis. But I wasn't there for you... because you
did not reach out and ask me to be there for you. You did not reach out to
anyone. Problems cannot be solved without the support of people who love
you and care for you. If only you could see the warm hearts and the loving
tears that fall for you Matt. If only you can see how much pain you've put
upon all of us. Maybe you would have realized... that this wasn't the way
out... But what's done is done. Oh dear Matt...I wish I could know the
pain you were feeling...the emotions that ran through your head everyday...the
pain that you bottled up inside. I went to your church...I was in your
Spanish class.... how could we have all been so blind? I hope that where
you are now is a place where you won't have problems anymore. Where you
won't cry or feel pain or have to deal with whatever lead you to do what you
did. I hope you are sitting on a beautiful cloud somewhere...looking
down... and praying for our souls... just how we have done for you. Maybe
in heaven one day...I'll be able to see you're beautiful smiling face...that is
not filled with pain anymore. Maybe then some of my questions can be
answered...some of my problems resolved. You are a person I will never
forget, and you will remain a very important part of my life for as long as I
live. The best I can do now is try to be happy that all your pain is
gone...and try to ignore that you took the easy way out. Please know that
in the hearts of our community you will always be remembered as a loyal friend,
a supportive family member, a handsome young man, a smart scholar, a best
friend, as an optimistic person, an outstanding athlete...the list goes on and
on. My heart reaches out for you everyday and my hopes and support will be
with you always. May God bless you and forgive you for this sin. May
God be able to see the pain you were feeling and the tears that were falling.
Matt you are so brave...so incredibly brave. I hope you can see what you
have done to everyone...how much love you had. How much you were loved by
everyone that knew you, and even by people that did not know you. I'll
miss you ~ Please rest in peace and suffer no more.
~ Love Always ~
-Tweetyberd@aol.com
Matt,
You...
SHINE!!!
I loved you then, love you now, and will love you always.
-Forever,
Jen
Until We Meet Again In The Dwelling Place Of God
Dear Matt,
I never really knew you as much as the other people on our swim
team, but the impressions that you left will ring in our ears forever. At
Berkeley boys will look at your hook and remember the good loving times you had
with them not the hard awful times they went through with you. The
memories that you left with the people who loved you dearly will help them get
through your untimely death. Even though you didn't realize how much
everybody loved you . . . They DO!!! I wish I could have gotten to known you
much better than I did. You are happy now, but we will have a missing piece
in our life forever. We all love you, and will remember you until we meet again
in the dwelling place of God.
-Love,
A Junior
Thanks For The Wonderful Memories
Matt,
It feels like I have known you my whole life. Which is close to the
truth, since the first grade I have laughed at you and with you. We were
never very close but you lifted me up when I was feeling down. Your
presence will be missed by all who knew you. Thanks for the wonderful
memories, you truly are a wonderful person.
-A Junior, A Friend
You Made Me A Better Person, Just By Being You
Dear Matt
I don't even know where to begin. You were one of the most incredible people
i have ever met. You could always put smile on my face whenever i needed
it. When i was having guy problems, you were there to tell me to forget
it, and that was the best advice you ever gave me. So many memories i have
of you, and so many memories i will never ever forget. You made me a
better person just by being you. Every day i will think of you, i promise
you that. I just wish you could have known how many people loved and cared
for you. Thank you for everything you have ever done for me, I could never
even repay you for all the good you had on my life.
Love Always and Forever
-Ashley