Lisa M. Holley:
CLASS OF 1987
Pebblebrook High SchoolClass of 1987
Mableton, GA
Heidelberg Middle SchoolClass of 1987
Heidelberg,
Heidelberg American High SchoolClass of 1987
Heidelberg,
Lindley Middle SchoolClass of 1987
Mableton, GA
Clay Elementary SchoolClass of 1987
Mableton, GA
Lisa M.'s Story
My life has been quite interesting and so much fun with everything I've been able to experience, things I'm currently doing and new experiences I'm looking forward to very soon. I have been so fortunate to go places and meet people I once only dreamed about. I've met so many amazing people and given the opportunity to do things that were beyond incredible. While I'm glad to have had the experiences I have and look forward to many more new experiences, there has been a large part that has been missing. That part is a very special person who I met my freshman year in college, and he became my best friend. We were inseparable and everything we did and shared was nothing short of being great and having fun. He was not only my best friend but the guy I would be married to today if things had not taken the quick turn preventing our friendship from moving forward. He had moved to Nashville so his parents could sell their home in Atlanta and not have two house payments, which I felt was the right thing to do since he was not able to graduate at the same time I did...he failed a class we both were taking, yet we laughed about it at the time. He ended up on scholastic probation, so he was not in school, and he moved to Nashville where his mom had been transferred to with her job. We still were inseparable and spent several days a week hanging out and having fun like we always did. I was continuing my education after graduating and one day I called him just to see what he was doing and found out he was in the hospital. The only thing that mattered at that point was finding out what was wrong and him getting better. He told me everything the doctors were testing him for and most of them had very slim odds that he would be diagnosed as having. Well, the results of one of the tests came back diagnosing him with Leukemia which the doctors said due to his age, the chances of him having it were slim to none. So that was a bit of shock. He was set to have a bone marrow transplant within two weeks, so my parents and I were going to visit him the next weekend. Unfortunately, we didn't get to go because he died 8 days after being diagnosed. I was totally devastated. He died 2 days before my birthday, which we always made such a big deal out of and had more fun than should be allowed, and his funeral wa...Expand for more
s the day after my birthday. This was a very difficult thing for me to go through and we were not even dating. We were just best friends but there was something inside us both that knew there was more to our friendship. He had already asked me to marry him twice and I told him he was crazy because we were too young, and we were having too much fun. I can't go back now and tell him what I actually felt and it took a long time to get past that. Even my parents believed he would have been their son-in-law. He was my partner in crime and fun and we made the most of it. Many of the things I have been able to do, places I've been able to go and so many more experiences I've had were things we always said we wanted to do. So, while I'm glad that I have been able to do so many of the things we said we wanted to do, doing them without him leaves a part of me empty. I'm sure he's glad I have been able to so much of what we wanted to do, but I wonder how it would have been if he had not died so young and we were able to do everything together. While I miss him so much, I am grateful to him for all the things we shared together and the interests we shared and all the ideas we had for things we wanted to do together. So yeah, while this has been a difficult thing in my life, I still have been able to go and do so much of what we both wanted, and my life has been great. So many interesting and exciting experiences, but most of all, the one thing my very special friend taught me, always have fun no matter what you are doing. And to this day, everything I do is fun, or I find a way to make it fun. Because to me, if you are not having fun, you're not living. Despite the sudden death of my best friend in life, I know on some level there was a reason he was taken too soon, and I know he is looking down watching over me and laughing a lot at some of the crazy things I do and the amazing things that come my way. I wouldn't want that to be any other way. His place in my heart is what drives me to be the person I am and motivates me to keep living my life the way I have knowing that only more interesting, exciting and fun things will definitely come my way. I look forward to it and pray my life will continue to be as great as it has been. The only thing I know is whatever I am doing, it's going to be fun.
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