Tribute to a lost friend I miss

This site is dedicated to my former best friend and second cousin Ralf from Solingen/Germany. We were pretty much of the same kind (virgo as I am) and understood each other blind, perhaps because we both were outsiders in the eyes of our age-mates then. Ralf shoot himself in fall 1993 at the age of 23. There was nothing I could do to help him because of the distance between Nuremberg and Solingen (300 miles). I had a call with him some days before his suicide what makes me even more sad as I sometimes ask myself if I would have been able to anticipate what he was planning to do. No, of course not. But today, our families are starting to try to forget about him and I can't accept this. I do still miss him and don't feel ashamed about this at all. His death changed my life somehow and without Tina I don't know where it would have led me to. I know that some people might consider it inadequate to handle this tribute to him this way and to make this public, but he never had a chance to archieve anything in life and the world never had taken notice of him (perhaps that's what led him into death), so this is my attempt to give him the place he deserves in this world. I know that this is something personal and that is why I didn't ever thought of inserting a image of him in here.

Thanks for reading!

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