Quote Originally Posted by sodascouts View Post
HH, I too seem to feel it just as keenly today as I did just under six months ago, whenever I think about it. The difference is that lately I don't think about it as much as when it first happened. I still think about him every day, but it used to be almost constant. I'll never forget him, but I know there will come a time when I don't think about him every day anymore. I just don't know when that will be.

I do think he realized his life's dream, though. Yes, there were things he wanted to do that he didn't get a chance to do. However, he lived life to the fullest and he changed the world with his music. When he died, his band was still selling out arenas world-wide FOUR DECADES after they started. On the personal side, he was able to have a loving marriage for 25 years and three beautiful children (although of course we wish they'd had more time together). In that sense, when it came to the things that were most important, he was able to live out his biggest dreams.

I watched a clip from HOTE the other day. It was from '76. Don says "We can't do this forever" and then Glenn acts shocked. "We cant'?" They both laughed... but you know what? He did do it, right up until the end. I celebrate all he accomplished even as I mourn him, and it gives me some comfort.
I do think that he realized his life's dream -- that being reaching all of us as widely and as profoundly as he did, but I think that he was still a dreamer, still reaching every day and in every way to grow a bit more, to reach a few more people with his music, to score a movie, to complete the Broadway play, to see his kids get married and have children, to squeeze the shit out of all of the days that were left to him. That's what I meant. He did that , and then some, but it breaks my heart that he could not realize all of his dreams. None of us can. That's the goal post and the heart break of life. IMOl