Chris (L) & Timmy (R)

[EDIT: Stop telling me they wrote it about Lenny. That’s not what this post is supposed to be about. How is this hard for some of you? 🤦🏽‍♂️ Go be insufferable somewhere else.]

[EDIT 2: Didn’t expect this response, so I have to give a general “Thank You all so much for sharing your stories. All of them, whether they were about grief, or loss, or something else entirely… I truly appreciate your responses and your love.”]

For me, it's my best friend, Chris Teagardin. On February 1 of last year, he and our close friend "Timmy Bro" Schultz went out for some tacos, and the cops chased a dude into my friends at 95 mph.

I feel I've had two soul mates in my life, my wife and Chris. He and I were fastfriends, and would talk about growing old together, sitting on park benches drinking coffee and complaining about stuff! Despite him having dozens of friends he's known his whole life, I was one of his groomsmen, less than two years after we met. We literally raised our kids together, in the same house.

I owe my home life to my amazing wife, and that's it own indescribable thing, but I owe so much else to my relationship with Chris that if it were able to be quantified, I don't think I'd want to spend that much time listing it all. To everyone who knew him, he was gravity, and the void left by his departure is something I doubt I'll ever fully heal from.

And the song describes Chris. He was hot as a pistol, but cool inside. He was a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track. Losing him was a knife in the back. And.... nothin's gonna bring him back.

I will always love you Chris. I will always love you Timmy Bro.

Anyone else feel like sharing?