Before my friend died, he always talked about starting up his own 

catering

business. He really liked to cook, and he really liked to serve others his food, no matter how broke he was, I'll give him that, but I don't think there was any support structure for him to become a legitimate catering business owner.

To start off, we were in 

college

, and we could barely attend classes let alone start our own business. But as I write this now I think perhaps maybe it's the other way around. Maybe had we done something we truly wanted to do then maybe everything would've turned out for the better.

Instead we had always known that we ought to be studying and working on our projects, but instead 

drinking

and doing 

drugs

and going to 

parties

. Basically just wasting a whole bunch of time. I wonder now that I'm older, maybe he might've stuck to the catering thing for awhile... and sure he might've ended up failing a few classes and eventually flunking out of school altogether, but he would've been doing it for a good reason. So instead of flunking out, you could call it dropping out kind of like 

Bill Gates

and 

Mark Zuckerberg

did... except instead of dropping out to found a in-the-future trillion dollar business, to start a simple catering service.

One thing's for certain... if all of this had happened, he would've never died at the Bushwick Cafeteria that Saturday afternoon. My friend died in a school shooting.