Mark Manson

Next to the swimming pool, there was like a,

maybe a small cliff, 20 feet high, overlooking the lake.

And after a few hours, people started jumping off that cliff into the lake.

I had actually wandered away for a short period of time, but basically came back out and there was just like police and ambulances and fire department everywhere.

And the party had stopped.

And I was like, holy shit, what's going on?

And so I started walking around and I'm like, wow.

okay, this seems pretty serious.

Like somebody got hurt, something happened.

I looked around like girls are crying everywhere.

Like nobody's talking.

And so I start looking for Josh and I'm wandering through the crowds, wandering through the police cars and the ambulances and everything.

And I can't find him.

And after maybe two or three minutes, it like dawns on me of like, oh shit, maybe he's the person that something happened to.

And so it turned out that he had decided to jump off the cliff.

The coroner's later said that his legs had cramped up, likely from dehydration from

The heat, drinking all day, some drugs.

His parents later told me that he was a terrible swimmer, which I had no idea.

So basically he jumped into the water, legs cramped up, couldn't swim well.

It was starting to get dark.