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I Will Miss Robin Williams

When I heard the news today, I couldn't believe it. Words couldn't even describe how shocked I was. My face went from stunned to tears uncontrollably falling from my eyes. I couldn't then and still haven't come to terms to the fact that he is gone. I want to wake up tomorrow and find out that it all was just some terrible mistake but sadly its not.
I'm so sad to say goodbye to the guy that lit up my childhood with so much love and laughter. It breaks my heart that someone who brought so much happiness to so many people couldn't find his own happiness. Suicide is such a tragic way to die because it leaves you with unanswered questions. And now here we are all asking, "Why did he do it? What made him lose his fight to live? How did we not know he was struggling?
I grew up watching the classic movie Mrs. Doubtfire. My dad and I would always watch it when i was younger and it never got old. Another classic movie of his that I have always loved is Patch Adams, He played such an inspiring role that just warmed your heart. Robin Williams did so many amazing films and even animated films such as the movie Aladdin. He wasn't just a great actor or a comedian, he was a great person that loved people and animals including his friend Koko the gorilla. He had such a lovely spirit about him that no matter what mood you were in he would just brighten your entire day.
Today is a very sad day for all of us supporting fans but I can't even imagine what his family is going through. Robin wasn't about the money or the awards. He just wanted to put a smile on your face. And he always succeeded to make us burst out laughing. He was a great friend, a great husband and an amazing dad. He will forever be missed. "Rest in peace to one of the world's greatest human beings ever lived." <3
" After all... 'We're all his g.o.d.d.a.m.n. kids too'
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PussyCat691

It's very sad that the person who brought so many smiles to people's faces was so sad inside that he took his life. I know how it feels. Only I never had guts to do what he did. He's death is a great loss to the world and he will be dearly missed...

longisimusdorsi

PussyCat691. I will miss lots, I thought a great deal about him too. He had to be in extreme pain to cause him to commit suicide. He had to realize that many people loved him and that he was a role model to many. For him to cope with his pain in that way didn't take GUTS. He just gave in, and quit. His many fans would have respected him more if he would asked for help.

Wouldn't you have respected him more if he would have asked for help, instead of taking the cowards way out. That was the first thing he did that didn't make me laugh. Sure it was very sad but Robin, that definitely wasn't funny.

PussyCat691

He did ask for help. Or that's my understanding. The help he got just wasn't what he needed perhaps? I don't know. My own life has changed a lot since, to better I must say. Not because of professional help I got, which as I think of it now was a complete scam. No. Because of a hand that found my hand in the darkness and has held it since. Perhaps such a hand was what he was missing, but it's now too late to ask...

longisimusdorsi

Pussycat691, My relationship with Robin Williams was only as an adoring fan through the media. I didn't know, know him as a close friend might. I just "used" him because he could always make me smile. One Time, a group of buddies were sitting around just a shooting the bull and someone in the bull session asked "If you could trade lives with another person, who would it be?" People in the group would name a person that he would most like to be like. For instance Jim liked to drive fast and take risks so he would always name a big Time car racer. Another buddy of mine was built pretty good and would always say the name of a body builder the group had never heard of. Steve was a lady's man and he would always say John Holmes or some other porn star. When it came for me to name the person I most wanted to swap lives with I would always say Robin Williams because I was always the out going, entertainer of the group. I don't say that anymore because I have lost my idol.

When I heard that he had died and I asked how. I didn't want to believe that really wanted to "0ff" himself, I thought it was only an accident,
In a skit or a comic routine that had gone wrong. (Real wrong)

I had never heard that he was anything but the Rock of Gibraltar and that he was very upbeat. I didn't know that he hurting. I feel stupid now when I say "why didn't he"

Early in my career I was a supervisor on a production line that required so many women to be on that line and working. I had quotas I had to meet each day and I expected the line to produce. So when one of my employees would call in saying that they wouldn't be able to come in. I would ask why? I could accept that they had the flu or a illness that would require a doctor visit. When a single mother told me that she wasn't able to come in because of DEPRESSION I would freak out. I used to think that depression wasn't real. Now, I know different. Because of an injury I have been in a wheelchair for 25 years and will be for life. Boy, do I know that depression is a real thing now. I was married with children, had a good, successful career. Now I have nothing. Now I'm just a lump in a wheelchair. I'm not depressed because of the good anti-depression drugs. I try to find activities I can do in my physical condition, now I can smile again.

I now know that depression is real but there is no reason to let your life be consumed by it like Robin Williams did. He was always the type A individual and for him to appear weak and ask for help is something he wouldn't do.