Hi Moby my name is Danielle, i listen to your show every morning on the way to school and turn up the radio extra loud just to make sure i hear every word to the daily small town soap box! i am writing this for it to hopefully be your next small town soap box... here it goes:

On Friday May 8, 2009 Jordan; my classmate and friend of 8 years committed suicide. He was 17 years old. This is the first time our high school has gone through something like this. The thing about Jordan is he seemed fine like it was just another day. Then we all get the terrifying text saying he died and that Monday at school the whole school was quiet. No one spoke a word. While everyone was trying to figure out what they said to him I was to busy staring at the empty desk in class right next to me. That was when it hit. A life that had so much ahead was gone! A life that never knew how much he was loved or going to be missed was gone! A friend that I have known as well as everyone else for about eight years is never coming back!

The funeral was filled with classmates and family. The casket had a skateboard on top cause that is what Jordan loved to do. A 17 year old boy took his life because he didn’t think life was worth living. My friend who I thought was just an annoying boy everyday, ends up being the one that I was sitting there shedding all the tears in my body over. Seeing him lay there and trying to actually believe that he is gone was still unbelievably terrifying. The last thing I said to him was not the nicest at all. None of the last things any of us said to him was nice to begin with. Now that he is gone we all realize how big of an impact he put in our lives.

After the funeral kids, were walking around saying they were sorry to the people they have hurt. Then we all gathered around and signed his yearbook, with all the regrets on how we wish we could have been nicer and treated him different. We then realized that the last thing you say to someone could really be the last, that maybe that one thing you say or don’t say to someone could account for their life. He is missed and we all feel to blame. Its just sad that a life had to be taken in order for everyone else to realize how he changed our lives, how cruel kids are, and how what we say really does have an impact on others lives. Jordan taught us more than anyone could teach us through a lecture or book. He taught us how to treat people and love people. how to show it and how to let the ones around us know it. Jordan will be missed and there will be an empty seat at graduation just for him, because that is where he was meant to be the whole time, just no one ever showed it enough for HIM to know.. God Bless! And Yeah Baby

Danielle