I...wasn’t expecting someone to bring back this post. Brings up a myriad of emotions to sit and look through it again, and to see more condolences from people who took the time to read such an old post.

Though it is old, and though 9 months have passed since my friend took his own life, there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about him, especially since I started back to school. And I still stand by the things that I said in the OP—that people should remember how, to someone somewhere, they are the most important thing in the world; and how people should try to remember that the person they are talking to on the other side of their computer screen is a person, so try to treat them with some semblance of respect.