there's a light that shines forever

 
River Phoenix would have been 41 today, if he'd lived.

(I was thinking about that during the Frozen Embryos Residue 30 Seconds to Mars concert, because Jordan Catalano Jared Leto is 40. JORDAN CATALANO IS 40. Shit my teen idols are getting old.)

Anyway.

People speculate what would have happened to him if he had lived, and sometimes I wonder, too, although mostly I'm just happy he will forever live on as the 23-year-old young actor who both knew too much and too little to truly fit in anywhere.




Buildings burn. People die. But real love is forever.