jacob blackmore grew up with a lot of us. to the people that didn't actually know him they probably just thought of him as the big scary guy. but personally, i thought jacob was actually really sweet. i'm not going to act like we were best friends because by no means were we. but we were friends and i pray for his family and the loss they are suffering.
jacob was in my homeroom growing up. and he always had something interesting to say. he could make us all laugh more than anyone else. i remember he told us how he was building a UFC fighting arena in his backyard. for days he was trying to convince rachel and i to fight in his arena once it was finished haha.
then there's also the time at the senior picnic where neelam decided to go against jacob in the inflatable 2-person race. you tried to see who could put the velcro thing furthest while attached to a connected bungee cord. everyone new neelam was going to die based off of her tiny size compared to jacobs. we were all waiting to see neelam fling backwards. but surprisingly neelam won!? we still don't understand how that happened...haha
jacob disappeared for a long time at one point. he was gone for like 8 months or so and then randomly one day, in the middle of the week, in the middle of the semester, jacob walks into homeroom and sits down as if he'd never left. haha everyone in the room looked around at each other in confusion including mrs. stiltz. rachel and i looked at each other asking if that was jacob?? we then asked jacob where in the world he had been for the last while. he continued to explain to us about how he escaped from some boot camp thing and how he survived off of the animals in the woods haha.
david once told us how coach kemper was having a serious talk with the football players one day and jacob was in the corner laughing. when asked what he was laughing about he said, "you know in the movie Where The Wild Things Are, they never tell you where they are" haha
jacob also always tried convincing garrett, sam, and nick to fight him. it was pretty much a daily conversation in homeroom haha.
i think we all agree that jacob always put a smile on our faces. he was truly one of a kind. let us not mourn in the loss, but smile in the life he lived. when death happens it really makes you rethink about everything. so if anything let this be a reminder to us all to take advantage of every day. my mom always tells me to live by faith, not fear. faith that we will do what makes us happy with the ones we care the most about. not fear that tomorrow could be our last day.
our class of 2010 at pope has graduated and moved on. some have moved thousands of miles away while others have stayed in the same place. but either way, we've all begun new chapters of our lives. it's great to know though that despite how different we all may be, we can still unite together during times like these to be there for a classmate, a peer, and a friend.
live each day to the fullest
rest in peace jacob
L
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