the passing of a friend...

not the type of news one would like to hear...not now...not ever

before going for my jog on saturday evening, i received a call from someone asking if i was Kishore's friend...i said i was his army friend...the person said he was Kishore's uncle and that Kishore passed away that morning...

i was dumbfounded...went for my jog hoping that it was just a sick joke...

but when smses started coming in from army mates...

almost the whole of our lightstrike 4 company turned up for Kishore's wake last night...some of the guys we never saw since ord...even the officers and specs...how i wished we were meeting up for a different reason...

the look of Kishore's mum calling out to his son when we were all gathered around his coffin was just heart wrenching...

they said Kishore passed away in his sleep...we dont know the exact cause though...
i read up online about dying in your sleep...it had something to do with either heart failure or sleep apnea or asphyxia...the thought of falling asleep and not waking up is just scary...

everything happened so suddenly...we just had our 4th ict together in September and now he's no longer with us anymore...we'll miss you Kishore...