Tursic remembered for lives he touched

Dorian Tursic was distinguished not only for his being a brainy straight-A student in his first senior year at the Kent Meridian High School, but also noted for his greatness in human relationships skills as well.

Editor Laura Pierce penned these words that she filed before the Kent Reporter during the candle light vigil gathering she covered that draws 500 hundred Kent Meridian students to paid tribute to the life of the late Dorian Tursic:

“None of us are going to forget what he did for us,” admonished another teen, one of Tursic’s many friends who got up to speak at the vigil, his voice breaking. “All I knew was that he was an awesome friend. When you came to him with a problem, he was there,” another student shared with the group.

“Though Dorian may be gone, he’ll be forever in my heart. I love you, Dorian,” said a teenager to the group, one of many who got up and spoke at the student-organized candlelight vigil.

What good lessons can we glean from this dolorous yarn about a teenager whose promising young life was snuffed out due to a car accident?

No doubt Dorian Tursic was well loved by his peers at the school campus. He was well loved, because from what I understand, he was a loving person and easy to get along with. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once declared, “If you want to have friends, be a friend.” Dorian indeed took Emerson’s wise words of counsel in his fledgling life.

Though acknowledged as one who has the keenest minds among the students at Kent Meridian, Dorian, during his car accident that led to his untimely demise, in my opinion, had made an impoverished choice of driving his new purchased car at a very early hour in the morning.

The news article did not mention the rationale behind why he and his other three minor comrades in the car are still in the street in that very early hour of the day. Unless of course, if they are responding an emergency call that needs to be taken care of, that is understandable. But if they are out in the road just for the sake of driving around, that is a different story.

I suppose it’s because they are still young and considered minor in age, except Dorian Tursic, who is 18 years old, they should be in bed by that time sleeping. But wait, where are the guardian parents of the three young teens involved in the car crashed? Was the late Dorian Tursic still living with his folks, or was he already on his own feet at the time of the car accident?

Regardless of Dorian’s cause of his fatality, the fact remains, he had made a great impact in the lives of other students inside the four walls of the academe during his life time.

Numerous students esteemed him a kind and hearty human being. And to me that is all that matters.

Though he passed away at young age, his life is not to be measured by the manner how he died, but by how he lived. What’s really important is not the years in life, but the life in years.

Thank you Editor. Keep up the good job.

Warlie Villasencio

Kent