With graduation coming up I had to stop and get my cap and gown today and the first thing that went through my head was you. It's been five years already I can't believe how time has flown by. You'd be amazed with how much things have changed you'd probably get a pretty good laugh out of some of it AND with how much you know they always stay the same. I'll be seeing you soon bud.
I remember vividly the night I ran home to my mom because I saw you in a friend of ours. Now there's a little boy in church that looks just like you when you were a kid. And everytime I see him I know you're still here in spirit. Christmas is coming soon and I'm sure you'll be yapping it up when we have to sing at church :) I miss you and love you. I'll be thinking of you every day.
over four years have passed and still to this day i think about matt. its crazy to think that every day my thoughts are of him. i didn't know him very well but my family is very close with his. it amazes me to see how strong they are. a family like theirs didn't deserve that to happen. i wonder how they get through each day. it gives me so much hope to know that people can be that strong. whenever i feel alone or upset about the things in my life i think of matt. hearing the most wonderful things about him makes me regret not knowing him better. there are so many days that i sit and think about that day when he passed. i remember falling to the ground shocked. how could god do this. everything happens for a reason.. whatever the reason may be matt showed so many people espcially me that life is short and to always dream as big as you can. to be a caring person with love for everyone. thats what matt was all about helping people and showing his love to everyone he knew. each day i strive to be a better person and follow in Gods footsteps...matt has definatly changed my life in ways i didn't think were possible.
So after four years I'm sure you thought we'd forget about you, but I'd hope you're up there surprised to find we didn't. I can still picture it, every summer when I'm home, you boys running around the neighborhood, whether we were throwing rocks in that house and getting caught and taken home by the cops, or out causing trouble in our own neighborhood..The nights we all spent sitting on back porches, the whipped cream fight, everything..I think about you all the time, but I'm sure you know that. Today is four years since you've been gone, but it feels like just yesterday. I'll see you soon though, and until then, I'll think of you all the time and know you're around me helping me make the best decisions I can to lead me the right way. I miss you and I love you.
Tomorrow/ Kim (friend)
Already I've been replaying the events that happened 3 years ago tomorrow. It seems like this year has gone by so fast. Tomorrow old friends will gather to see you again and although we will all be sad that you aren't there with us, we'll all share our memories with each other and a remember when to bring you back to life for us. After a while we'll all go our separate ways back to college, work, and high school, however we will all spend the day remembering how much you have impacted all of our lives and the memories you have given us all. I love you so much Matthew and think about you a lot, especially lately but I'm sure since you watch over all of us you know what's happening. Keep watching over all of us and we'll all keep wishing you were here to share these experiences with us instead of guiding and helping us through them. You'll always be my little freckled Matt who used to bowl with me, play in the yards at each other's houses, and my first little boyfriend. I will forever cherish the memories we have together and am grateful that I have them with you. Keep watching over and guiding all of us you'll always be our Rockstar Angel <3
Kim Brentzel Close
April 2008 / Katie Sandala (friend)
I can't believe it's April again. I think about you all year long, but when it comes around to spring you are in my every thought. I wish I could be experiencing college with you, or at least having you to hang out with over breaks. Things are changing really fast. I don't even see most of our friends anymore.
Its Been A While / Tim Ruefle (Friend)
Its hard to explain how much you have affected all of those who had the honor to know you. I can't remember you any other way than always being happy, and making everyone around you as joyful as you were. I miss you man. Close
missin you!! / Jasmine (just a person )
hey matt, another one of my good friends just passed and it has me thinking.. i dont know how to take this. its SO hard.. i hope that you will help him and guide him. you were both wonderful guys and everyone misses you more than you can imagine! including me! i miss you matt, and please just make sure that he will be ok... i trust you to help him and all of us who are hurting right now. *keep playing that music that we all love!* Close
kennywood./ Kate (Friend)
no, this has nothing to do with kennywood, but it's almost hard to think of you without thinking of kennywood. i miss you matt, so much has changed with everyone in different places, starting our lives, leaving penn-trafford behind. but I know, I'll never leave your memory behind. I think about you everyday and miss you more than the day before. love always. Close
I haven't been on here in a while. I miss you and I know your still up there rockin out with the best. I think about you everyday and how you have made such a huge impact on mine and everyone one elses life that knew you. You are with me all the time, and I always strive to do the best I can in everything I do, and its because of you. You taught me that when i'm doing something I love, to never give up and to work to get as best as I can at that, as you did with your guitar and music. You have inspired so many lives down here and I cannot wait til I get to see you again... Keep Rockin Out up there brother... LOVE 4.14 FOREVER
hey/ Katie Sandala
matt -- life is crazy different now. i honestly havnt even been on the website for the longest time and i could make a million excuses about how busy i am but its all whatever. i miss you though, you know that. you are always in the back of my mind and i can truely say that my life is still effected by you every single day. i love you.
john told a story about you the other day and he was still so little before you left us! its amazing how you impacted people.
college is going good. im not really sure what i want to major in but it will definately have something to do with kids. im engaged now. you would definately like him, and he knows allllll about you. he just got back from afghanistan -- crazy huh?
well thats really all for now. i love you and miss you. <3 Close
some changes have come about brother love. some for the better some for the worse.. i havent been on this site in a long time and i wish i could spend more time on here looking and saying some things but my head is spinning and my heart is beating really fast so i'm gonna get back to this sometime soon.. man... we will meet again in the sky... love you brother you were the best.. miss you more than you know..
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