The Journey has Come to an End

Our beloved son, brother and best friend left us this night.

A brave journey has come to an end. A journey that lasted exactly for 25 years, 4 months and 15 days. A journey of a huge heart in a weak and small body. A journey of a brilliant mind in a far to weak shell.

As Mats shared with us all in this blog he was born with some challenges very few could imagine. He was however never bitter, angry or expressed any sort of unfairness. Quite the contrary Mats was the one filling us and his sourandings with sunshine, positive thoughts and optimism. During his more than 25 years amongst us he never had one negative or bad thing to express about another human being or living creature.

For those of us who was fortunate enough to learn to know Mats we share a commen experience - we got to spend time with a great little man. Mats enriched us in teaching us to be able to differ between the important and the not so important things in life. Mats was the true advocate of smiling to the world in order to get a smile back and Mats thought us the power of positive thinking. In Mats we experienced something as rare as a true wise man. They are few, but you recognise them when you meet them. Mats was such a person.

At 23:45 on November 18th the journey of the bravest amongst us came to an end. Now we will start walking the path of sorrow. We have experienced the feeling when parents leave us, but now we will experience something nobody should have to experience - the loss of a child and a brother. This will be a different path to follow. The only conviction we have is that Mats is the one person for whom it is worth going down this rocky path.

Today is a day for sorrow and sadness. But one day soon will also be the day to celebrate a fantastic personality, a strong will to live and a substantial and sustainable influence on his sourandings.

We have loved you so much, we will continue to love you and even if your own journey came to an end this night you will always participate in our joint journey together.

You will be deeply missed, but never forgotten.




The family can be contacted on mail: Robert@schibsted.no.



Mia, Trude and Robert.