I haven’t been here almost since the Carrier started, and it’s my own fault for that, but hearing this news has brought me back, for right now at least.
Miqque was one of the purest selfs I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. There’s no human on Earth like him, and it’s even doubtful there’s any humanoid off-Earth like him. I had the pleasure of conversing with him from time to time on Facebook as many of you did, and the energy he had on this board was just who he really was. He seemed to deeply value his connections with so many of us and many others as well. How he had the boundless energy and enthusiasm for keeping track of the lives of people he had never met in physical reality one can only speculate, but it’s nothing if not impressive.
I had a close call with being able to meet him many years ago when my now-wife and I did a road trip across the USA; I had tried to get ahold of him at the time but he was going through some of his horribly unfair life struggles at the time, and it wasn’t a possibility. I always regretted not being able to figure out how to make it happen somehow anyway, now even exponentially so. I have the tendency to reflect often, probably too often, on mistakes I’ve made and things I wish I could’ve done or would’ve done differently, and this is going to be high on the list for as long as I live. For what it’s worth DJ, Gar, I think of you guys fairly often too, and I’m sorry for being a jerk.
I often thought of Miqque as being like our own personal Hunter S. Thompson. I was never quite sure how true his stories were, but I always wanted to believe them anyway. I’m pretty confident at least that there is and was truth to them, anyway, and that he led the kind of life most people only dream of, with fervor, skill, curiosity, and drive. As many of you have already noted, he never let life keep him down, and I really admired that about him.
I don’t have that many sources of positivity in life, and 2020 has of course made them even scarcer. He wasn’t just a light in the darkness, he was a goddamned blazing star. Shine on you crazy diamond, you’ll never be forgotten for as long as any of us still have a spark left to our own lives.
