Small Break
January 2, 2010 by Karissa
Filed under Info You Want to Know
So I have had some expected changes happen in my life. I say they are expected, but that they happened when i wasn’t expecting them. So basically I am moving (not sure where) and making some really major life changes.
I need to take a little time off. I am sure some of you may have realized something was going on as I wasn’t posting regularly as of late. I do have some things lined up, so I will get those up as soon as the powers that be allow me enough time and energy to do so.
I am not really sure how long the break will be, but I can assure you that i will be back, refreshed and stronger then full force as soon as possible. (before february i suppose)
Thank you readers for your support and thank you to all of my sponsors and PR guys and Gals for understanding. I will have limited email and internet access for a little bit, so please be patient.
Happy 2010 to you all and may it be your best year yet! Full of health, prosperity and joy!
One Final Word
I have been sitting here wondering what to say. I have erased and started over 30 times.
How to talk about the passing of someone so young and so tragically that it takes you not just in a shock, but in more of a white lightening bolt. How do you describe someone that has been a rock where others needed strength, but somehow slipped under your own radar in needing the same shoulder.
It seems cliché to tell you that Karissa was a wonderful person, so I won’t. I’ll instead tell you that she was hysterically funny, that she had a no holds barred attitude, that she held people up so strongly that you forgot to ask if she ever needed anything back. That she initiated conversation, that she waited for no one, that she was creative, and imaginative, and was always volunteering to help.
That she has caused the world around her to cry in her passing.
And while those are my words, it was important for me to pass on just a few words of her surrounding community of friends:
Karissa was a strong, loving person with the ability to touch everyone she met. Friendly, honest, giving, thoughtful and sweet are only a few of the words to describe the beautiful person that she was. I will never forget her.
Karissa was a pleasure to know and a sweet and true friend.
Karissa was my silly friend who could always make me crack a smile. I will save our emails and look back on them on those days, like today, when I could really use one. Miss you my goofy silly friend.
Karissa was strong and dependable. She was always there when a person needed her. I have to believe she touched many souls and truly carries a beautiful spirit.
Karissa was eager to help me as a beginning blogger. She wanted me to succeed even though she didn’t know me. That shows the depth of her heart.
Karissa was a beautiful woman, inside and out, shown through caring about her friends and helping them, as well as the planet she lived on.
Karissa was an inspiration to me. I looked up to her as a big sister blogger.
Karissa was knowledgeable and willing to help out anyone, even those she didn’t know.
Karissa was someone who never hesitated to help another.
Karissa was not afraid to speak up for herself or her friends. She was tenacious and strong and quite simply, beautiful inside and out.
Karissa was, and will remain, an inspiration to those she helped selflessly.
Its because of this we are at a loss.
I wish the eloquence would come, the uplifting spirit, the heartfelt words that would give everyone hope, but my strength is being spent in prayers and disbelief.
Much discussion has been lent recently to friendships and when death strikes us reaching out socially. The truth is, Karissa was a social blogger and someone important in many lives, even ones she never ‘met’. I am a social blogger, the chances are that if you are reading this, you got here through social means.
Our friendships are real.
Our tears are real.
Our pain is real.
Please do not let her passing be in vain. If you need help, reach out. Find a friend, friend a stranger, but find someone to talk to. There are people that love you, that need you, and that can help you get through whatever it is that you are feeling.
Karissa- I do not pray for your peace as I know you have it. I only pray for those around us that suffer in your passing. The world is a little dimmer today.
I will never forget you.
~Trisha
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*I am disgusted that I have to come back and CLARIFY this, but Karissa was part of our review network and part of our community-hence access to her blog. We know that she was proud, and rightfully so, of her blog and would want her website treated with respect and not left without completion. She was a friend in life and remains one in death.
We are working closely with her family to ensure her wishes.
