This is a small memorial to Joseph Hurst, and if I mention Joe, I have to mention Elizabeth (which I would have anyway)
I have had this on my mind for a long time now... So, if anyone is in the mood to cry, you've come to the right spot...Beth, don't go any farther unless you are willing to cry...please.
It isn't every day that you get a phone call from your best guy friend telling you that your boyfriend is dead. The heartache and torment is unthinkable. But this is what Beth had to go through on June 28, 1999. I of course was not home at this time... I was out with my parents planning our vaction for the summer. (I had finally talked them into taking me to Florida) I get home, and of course she had called. I had a funny feeling all day, and once I called her back, I knew. But to understand this...you have to know Joe. Or have heard a lot about him.
From what I remember/knew about him... he was a rather goofy guy. He was always cutting up, making people laugh and things. Although when he was infront of his friends he acted different (but who doesn't?, well, most of the time) He did treat Beth like a Queen though. I will always remember that.
I must admit, when she first met him, I warned her about him... I had heard of him from my (then, and greatest) boyfriend Stubby Jones. Joe and Stubby were very good friends, and Stubby had said a few things about Joe that I didn't agree with. Well, I warned Beth. We went to South Carolina on spring break (They met Easter weekend and then we went to S.C. that monday morning) she did want to get to know him better, but remembered what I had said.
She confronted him about this (it's just a bunch of chicks that he was "suppose to be with") he denied it and well...as they say...the rest is history.
The following things are the things that are forever "Beth and Joe's"
Here are a few quotes that I know Beth will agree on.
"Where there is love there is life."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
-Judy Garland
"Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal."
-Horace, Odes, B.C. 15
"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is."
-Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
-Willa Cather, My Antonia
"I hold it true,what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
-Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
"Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun."
-Robert Herrick
The name of Joseph gives you the desire to meet and mix socially and to create congenial circumstances for everyone. However, all too often, you express yourself in a matter-of-fact or awkward way that results in your good intentions being misunderstood. If you are in sales work, you could do well because of your friendly personality, interest in people, and desire to please. You prefer situations that allow a degree of independence, but are not too demanding in work-load or responsibility. When asked, you are able to give others good advice that you would probably not follow yourself, but must guard against being too opinionated in controversial matters. While you can appear to be confident, you need the moral support and encouragement of others who give inspiration and strength.
Your name of Elizabeth gives you a very idealistic but passive outlook on life. You desire culture and all the refinements of life but you are inclined to live in your dreams. Although you would like to do many things, procrastination undermines your accomplishment and success in life. You do not like to create issues and will do anything to avoid a conflict. Making decisions is difficult for you without the support and approval of others. This name gives you a very sensitive nature, making you feel much that you do not understand. Your feelings are easily hurt, at which times you are inclined to withdraw and become uncommunicative. Although you desire the friendship and association of others, you find it difficult to express your thoughts through the spoken word, and others find you hard to get to know. It is much more natural for you to express your deeper thoughts in writing. Inner tension can deplete your physical vitality.
Don't cry because it's over smile because it happened
Don’t fall in love with someone you can live with, Fall in love with someone you can't live without
I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures never replace having been there, memories, good or bad, will bring tears; and words can never replace feelings
Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you
If you LOVE someone tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store
If The only place we can be together is in my Dreams, Then I want to sleep Forever
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay for awhile, leave footprints in our hearts, and we're never the same
A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone But it takes a lifetime to forget someone