2gether

When I woke up that day it was because my phone kept buzzing, stopping, buzzing and stopping over and over again.

It was a Thursday, and it was around 10:00 AM, pacific standard time.

Why was my phone going off over and over again? Is mom okay? Dad? I hope it’s not serious. Then I saw that my ex-wife was the person calling and she had left a message.

“I’m sorry about your guy … Prince. Are you okay?”, it said.

What?!

I immediately went to Google and typed in the letters, P-r-i-n-c-e. And it was then that I fell to the ground and started to sob uncontrollably. This can’t be true. God, please …

That was two years ago today. And I still feel the pain of that day.

I remember blindly going through that day, watching the news for anything that could have made this make sense.

… And nothing made sense.

… it still doesn’t make sense.

There’s little that has been explained.

In the latest news, the scenario went that he had thought he was taking a dose of Vicodin, a much less deadly form of pain killer, as the pills looked similar in size and shape. Little did he know …

How can we get peace of mind from that?

I understand that we are all looking in hindsight. And it will tell you that there were so many warning signs that we overlooked, well not us per se, but his handlers.

The fact that only a few days before that he was brought back to life by a doctor in an emergency landing should have screamed loudly to anyone who was around to hear, that he should not have been left alone.

But, he was.

And, now we are.

Can you be alone and together at the same time?

Alone together.

I think we are the embodiment of those words.

We who still mourn his passing.

We who still think of him daily.

We who were brought to this place by Him, are still, for lack of a better word, together.

And that is amazing.

Amazing that a silly website that was named for Him, the He fought with all these years (and was a member of!), has survived even the man himself.

Two years later, and we’re still here offering discussion, compassion and togetherness.

And we’ve served him well.

From get-togethers to memorials to full on funky parties, we have laughed, danced, partied and cried. And the key thing to remember from this is that we have done all of this Together!

Or as Prince would put it ‘2gether’.

And, we will continue to do this together, because it’s what we believe in.

We believe in his music.

We believed in his message.

And, we believe in his legacy, probably more than anyone else.

We are ‘prince dot org’.

And, I sadly yet proudly welcome you to ‘Year 3AP’

Prince Rogers Nelson
June 7, 1958 to April 21, 2016
Rest in Peace, Brother

- Tomás / June7
On behalf of the Owners, the Staff and the Members of Prince.Org