Your memories live on, Jeff.

While the rest of the world looks forward to the coming of the holidays for this year, many acquaintances and friends mourn the untimely death of a special person, who as far as I knew him loved to live, had the passion to love and the zest to make a difference in the world. Jeffrey Allan Espino is now in the hands of Papa Jesus.

I met Jeff Espino during my short stint as a medical representative through a mutual friend, Brenda. Though there might have been so many instances when I would have been formally introduced to him in the past, (he is a year older than me in the Laboratory School, a fellow Physical Therapist, he was the brother of my counterpart in the company that I used to work for) it was in the time that I needed a friend to talk to about the hustle and bustle of the pharmaceutical world that I met Jeff Espino. I believe, that was the perfect opportunity to have met such an eloquent, fun-loving, hardworking and loving person Jeff is. My life as a medical representative would never be the same had I not met Jeff.

We shared the same liking for having fun while working. He had given me some hints to becoming the best med rep I could ever be. Though we were from different companies, he never saw me as a competitor. He saw me and regarded me as a friend.

After I left that industry, I met Jeff again, him still doing the same work. I was in total wreck, but seeing him again after a couple of years made me feel that if I could have been as passionate as he had been, I might have succeeded in that line of work. But God had other plans for me. God gave me the same passion which I now put in use in the life I have chosen to live. I have no regrets.

To realize now that Jeff and I have so many common friends, I realize now how my meeting him makes my own circle of life complete. That truly, we are all connected by some mysterious and magical scheme of things. I realize now that the pain of one becomes the pain of many. In his untimely passing, I saw and have read many people not only saddened, but hurt because such a lovely kindred soul has left us in such a painful way.

This is my simple way of paying my respect to such a lovely and gentle soul, someone, who without him really knowing taught me how to love the people around me, to respect the people around me, to be grateful for what I have and to love without limit.

Thank you, Jeff and may you rest in peace.