How To Remember Thee I realised that I wanted, perhaps needed to do something outside the normal to remember Tom. He was a huge part of my young adult life; we were inseparable for years. Flowers, a bench, and some nice words would do little to echo or remember who he was to me. Tom's 20th/21st birthday, I'm the handsome young man at the front. We did many things together, Raves, Festivals, countless drug and alcohol-fuelled adventures, sitting up all night discussing politics, philosophy, climate issues and how to fix the world or what we could do to improve our own lives and circumstances. We talking about girls we liked and how to approach them, we talked family and futures, we dicussed what we loved and what we did not. We played Chess and Poker two games Tom was always hugely passionate about, Poker was not my thing but I’d take pleasure in frustrating Tom at Chess. Games are my thing, always have been, I see them and how they work very quickly no mat...
