Cody 'Robo' Campbell
Robo was a very loved and appreciated person whom everyone respected and even admired and sadly on 2/23/2013, my 17th birthday, Cody died of a single self inflicted gunshot wound. This current connection will be done on the current event of him passing, though I would like to relate it to a song by Jason Aldean that's not very resent. The song title is 'Laughed Until We Cried' and it's easily found through any Internet search.
Robo was a good friend of mine, and even though recently the bad seems to overshadow the good in this situation we must remember the good times we've had. The song lyrics state, "oh man we were living, couldn't waste one minute", and this was very true of the relationship I had with him. When we talked or were working together in shop it was always about what was happening around us and what we needed to do, there was never an idle moment. We were always doing something productive in or outside of class, but when we weren't working we were living life and having fun and making memories. Another of my favorite lines of the song is where it says, "sitting there reminiscin', we sang and talked and traveled back in time, and laughed until we cried", this was very true of the FFA trips we went on. Cody taught me all about the mechanics competition and I was on his team, so we always had plenty to talk about and remember from previous contests and such. He was also one of my singing buddies who always sang along to country songs that we love to sing at the top of our lungs during the bus rides, especially 'Redneck Yacht Club'.
We not only lost a friend on that day, we lost an FFAmily member who was dear to us all. He will be greatly missed, and I just hope that one day we will be able to remember more of the good times and none of the bad.
