[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Farewell Good Buddy

JakeDHS07, AKA Shaun, this tribute is for you buddy. You are a very dedicated and decent young man, driven to help others in a quest to build his own life, home, and family. For all of your help, advice, dedication, and positive attitude, I thank you. Brian, please take this message home to the family as a tribute to Shaun and all of the help he has given.

XDA friends and members, this is a tribute to JakeDHS07 and how it has affected me and everyone Shaun has touched. For those short on reading skills or desire, please skip this post and move on! There are no Razr tech bits or help for you in this particular message. Thank you.

You know, I am familiar with Shaun, his work, his dreams, his temptations, and his resolve to build a better life. We sent messages and Shaun could sense that I was like him, only older, and had a lot of life experience in what he was dealing with. He trusted and confided in me. As a tribute, I began to tell his story. Yes, another multi-chapter Ohmster book to read, and the details I was revealing were really not mine to tell. I realize that these details are not what matter, the overall lesson that Shaun has given us all are enough, so I will give my tribute without all of the private details of this tragic event. These details are the trials and tribulations that any young man will experience in life, many of us win, some do not. His way of dealing with the stress of growing up was to immerse himself in technology, Droid phones, CyanogenMod roms, and helping others with rooting and romming phones to gain all the benefits that they alone could not master without help. This is a very big job and Shaun dug into it and pledged to help everyone. He took the first step, wiped his phone constantly to try and report on new builds, to help others with problems and replicate them on his phone, and really dedicated this part of his life to helping the Droid community. The bad part of this is that to be so helpful, he isolated himself and became reclusive to help everyone. Good for everyone else, very bad for Shaun. Shaun is helping everyone else, but who is left to watch over and help Shaun?

Maturity is a tough time for young men and woman to tackle and accept. Shaun was resolved to getting married, having a family, and having a home for himself and his spouse. Shaun was so happy to report his wedding and I was so happy for him, I remember that time of my life and how much that meant to me. Shaun realized the commitment that marriage would take and embraced it. But, being alone, he did not have many to share his joy and be there when he needed support and help. I was a "long distance friend" and could only help in the messages we exchanged. Shaun's new fiancé did not have the maturity to understand love, marriage, and the commitment it would take to be a new wife and have a real husband. She fell and took Shaun down with her. Shaun did confront her about the relationship, the marriage, and the girl blew him off, she wasn't ready or mature, and may never be. But Shaun was in love and this was his whole world. Shaun was in trouble, through no fault of his own, but his self imposed isolation. His entire world was falling apart and he had nowhere to turn for help, due to his own isolation, and it cost him his life.

Shaun wanted to give and give and he sure gave us a lot. Now he needed help, a mature friend or two, a dad, a group that he could talk to, to put things in perspective and to learn how to move on. He didn't have it. Depression drove him into, ...ah, ...uh, ...self medication and nowhere to turn. And it is so sad. He was discovered a week later when his best friend Brian went to look for him. Shaun lost his life and his dreams. He so wanted to help others, to share his experience, to help others, and to help others have a good life and get the most they can out of it. His final gift is his greatest gift of all. He gave his life and in his death, he shares the real problems of life and reclusive nature. Don't take on life by yourself. Talk to your dad, mature friends, a counselor, a priest, anyone who is mature and who will listen.

Let us all accept Jake/Shaun's final gift with thanks and a somber reminder of how tough life can really be. To never take on more than you can handle. To never take on life alone, talk to family, talk to a mature friend, a counselor, anyone, but never alone. Shaun was not good with words enough to preach and save people when it came to life's deeper and dangerous moments. But he devoted his life to helping others. His final act was to show us all what can happen when you shut the world out and try to take it on by yourself.

Shaun, I will appreciate so much all the help and devotion you have given me and the hundreds of others whose lives you touched and inspired to go that extra mile. I will never forget your devotion to others and how you took on the greatest challenge of all, alone, and what can happen to those that take the same path. I so wish I could go back, and had understood the gravity in your final message of problems you had with your girl and advised you better, but I can't, it is too late. My friend, you have left an ever lasting impression on all of us and a lesson we are sure not to forget. Thank you Shaun. You will never be forgotten. You are in my heart and mind always. I will never forget and am deeply saddened as to how this worked out. God Bless you, my dear friend, from me, and from all of the members you helped. Good luck on your final spiritual journey, I am sure that if there is a way that you can help others, that you will find it my dear friend... :crying: