Terry 'TBear' Smith

Terry 'TBear' Smith

By Expotera
December 22, 2016

Yesterday I received some extremely sad news in regards to truly
one of the most honest, sincere, loving, caring, affable, humble,
dependable, strongest, wisest, and best childhood friend's that
I ever, ever, had while growing up as kid, Mr. Terry 'TBear' Smith.

Terry and I have known one another since we were four years old
and to this very day, I have never in my life met and/or befriended
another human being who was as, "Nice" or who was as, "Positive"
as Terry was and I am truly, truly, going to miss his big huge smile,
his big huge heart, and his big huge, "Bear Hugs" as well.

When I think of Terry, I always think of a quote that President
Nelson Mandela once said that goes as follows:

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is
our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves,
who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually,
who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small
doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born
to make manifest that glory of God that is within us; It's in everyone
and as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people
permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

You see, Terry 'TBear' Smith was always letting his own little light,
"Shine" so this is why anyone who ever met him, befriended him,
or who was just simply around him for any length or period of time,
automatically feel in love with him simply because he consciously
gave everyone around him permission to let all of our little lights,
"Shine" as well, because his mere presence automatically liberated
all others around him which is why the news of his sudden passing
is so extremely sad, as well as so extremely heart breaking at this
present time.

So, "Rest In Eternal Love and Eternal Peace" Terry 'TBear' Smith,
my once in a lifetime childhood friend and beautiful Brother from
a different beautiful Mother because there are so, so, so, many of
us who are now very openly grieving your loss, but the wonderful
memories that I have of the two of us being, "Baptized" together as
well as growing up together are what I am now very fondly looking back on, as well as very, very, tightly now holding on to because in the final and closing words of Shawn Jenkins, "Find comfort in your wonderful memories.....let them dry your tears".....