someone to tell your problems to
So my friend would have been 30 years old on April 17th. It makes you wonder about how and why we turn out the way we are. He was prolly the most charismatic individual I’ve ever met. Women loved him and men wanted to be him. Yet, after 911 he decided to go to Iraq and fought. He was a protector of the weak, studied social work in school and was just out to help.
The lessons learned from Chris Zimny were many. But the main one is that helping is the way to go. The more you help people in need the more you help yourself…now I’m not saying Chris was perfect by any means, (who is) but rather that he was one that had a big heart and wasn’t afraid to share his thoughts and feelings.
I remember one time we were at a party drinking and hanging out, he leaned over to me and said ‘Yeah I want a girlfriend, someone to tell my problems to’…I thought about that for a while. I thought ‘Yeah, that’s what love is…letting people know you do have problems and are human’. He was totally serious about this and it just showed me that he had a big heart and that’s how he connected with people. I guess that’s how we all connect with people, finding someone that shares our emotions enough to be able to tell your problems to.
So Chris…old buddy old pal, here’s to you my friend…30 years old, you would have shared the feelings of getting old with us all. The emotion of waking up that morning and thinking…’dang I ain’t in my 20’s no more’.
It was nice to see his family and friends at the party that’s thrown for him every april 17th. Mom keeping busy and providing that maternal helping instinct, sister looking proud but teary, dad holding a stiff upper lip and also cracking jokes like one of the boys. Reminiscent stories coming alive breathing life into Chris’s legacy and revealing just a bit more each year. Chris will live on forever…I’ve vowed to keep his site up until I die…and I’ve got a way to go…I hope 
(knocking on wood)
The moment of the night that touched us all, silencing the masses and bringing all closer to his memory was when Mr. Zim busted out the videos on Chris, especially this one: Marc and Chris go West Thank you Marc, you are an amazing friend to have.
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:56 pm
hiya, for a while now i have been having this thing its stupied really and hard to explain. I shall try my best to explain to you what the matter of this problem is. This mostly happends at night but i will think about things and then my head will say oh if u dont do this somthing bad is going to happen to u like shuttin a door if i dnt shut it in the space of 3 secs something bad will happen and opening a fridge door to get the milk out and put the milk in the cup b4 the door shuts if i dont do that in time something bad will happen.this is really buggen me because i do everything my brain tells me its starting to scare me please help
lauren