Today, I wanted to make one post; not out of necessity, but out of importance. Importance to me, at least. I didn’t want it to be just a standard photo post with paragraphs on end about one of my five heroes, but it’s hard to make these posts anything else.
Everything I could say about Jimmy has been said within the last year; and in fact within the entirety of the time I have been an Avenged Sevenfold fan. To find the words that would even begin to cover such a wonderful human being seems like the hardest task in the world—and if I’m being honest, I’m done trying to find those words that will never come.
The bottom line is, I know exactly how I feel about this man. I know exactly how much his life has affected mine, and in turn, I know how much his death has affected me. I can’t speak for anyone else on this behalf, because I only know my own feelings; but at the end of the day, this isn’t about me. This is about him and his legacy. I can only remember his life like I knew it—through his music and through his best friends.
As for the image I’m accompanying this post with; I made this specifically for the gif. It’s how I remember him the most. Jimmy, playing his drums, with that beautiful fucking smile on his face. They say photos speak a thousand words; well, my hope is that this says a thousand more.
Rest In Peace, Jimmy, foREVer.
‘They say that all beauty must die, I say it just moves on.’
