YouTube is certainly the central source for what you might gain in the way of understanding or appreciation of/for Carly Henley, but not all of the highlights are obvious at Carly's own YouTube channel.
This observer's favorite is a combination of this video from the fall of Carly's senior year in high school and this other video shot less than 4 months before Carly died. There you'll find the same 4 students, first on stage at high school, and later reunited at a local coffee shop with a more polished Carly seeming to thrive while very much in her element among caring friends and adoring fans alike.
Next, is Carly's signature song "The Skin You're In", sung memorably on stage at a high school talent show. Pay special attention to how wonderfully Carly was received by the other students. Notice, also, that humble Carly made no mention on YouTube of having won that talent competition.
Perhaps the slide show tribute played at Carly Henley's candlelight vigil might help others to sense just how enviable Carly's short life seemed to be.
Here's a tribute video uploaded by one of Carly's close friends some six months after Carly's death. It affords some insight into Carly's casual time spent with friends and becomes especially touching and sentimental toward the end. Here's another tribute video uploaded by a different friend of Carly's, which is similarly sentimental and quite an impressive effort considering it was uploaded mere days after Carly's passing. (at the 2:10 mark of that last one is a quick photo documenting the hundreds of people who showed up for the candlelight vigil 2 days after Carly's death).
Click on the following link to see an adorable photo of a very young Carly.
A few favorites among Carly's post-high school YouTube offerings include this cover of "Hey Soul Sister", in which Carly looks radiant just 3 months before she was gone. Admire how humble she is in this cover of "Love is on its Way". Here's Carly covering a Justin Bieber tune.
Last among the video collection is this one, taken sideways, of Carly singing at a high school Veteran's Day assembly, covering Traveling Soldier by the Dixie Chicks. That performance was said to have brought many to tears in the school gym.
You don't likely need a guide around the web to find hundreds of photos of Carly, each seeming to reaffirm that Carly Henley's short life was about as enviable as they get for most of her twenty years on earth.
We're probably supposed to learn something from the clarity with which we seem to perceive, universally, that Carly had so much. Life is just... precious... and there is no substitute for the impulse to just call upon all of our strength, while not hesitating to call on others too, to find a way to make "life" a much more appealing choice than its alternative.
In remembrance of Carly Henley 23 years to the day since she first blessed this earth (July 30, 1990).
Thank you for inspiring so many people both during your life and ever after...
Carly Henley was someone I'd never even heard of before she took her own life at the age of 20 while a talented, popular and attractive junior at university. She seemed the person nobody would ever guess for such a fate. The media doesn't generally cover suicide but Carly Henley could inspire so much caring and understanding and it has to start somewhere... I attempt to present this blog without hurting or offending Carly Henley's family or anyone else but suicide is a delicate subject.
I learned of the death of college student Carly Henley two days after her passing, on October 6, 2010. In the days soon to follow it became clear that scores and scores of people were wounded to the core by the loss. Wonderful evidence around the internet serves to almost suspend Carly Henley's personable allure, her impressive musical talent, and a short life the likes of which most anybody could envy.
Various reports tell of her short term struggle with depression of perhaps three months in duration. Significant in that was the introduction of anti-depressant drug Zoloft via prescription some two weeks before Carly took her own life.
Not lost on me now, finally, is the wording in the "Black Box Warning" with Zoloft, which states that antidepressants may increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in persons younger than 25. Risk is especially heightened during the first two months of taking anti-depressants.
The labels on anti-depressant drugs in the U.S. were altered to reference young adults aged 18 to 24 just three years earlier - in 2007.
It is my belief, now, that Carly just happened to land among the small percentage of anti-depressant users who are susceptible to being so affected by a powerful drug such as Zoloft.
One need not ever have known such a remarkable woman to feel the pain all around at the loss of Carly Henley.
So many life lessons are so well represented by Carly Henley's compelling spirit. Let me see if I can help some to gain fuller appreciation for a woman who continues to inspire everyone who ever knew of her.
Various reports tell of her short term struggle with depression of perhaps three months in duration. Significant in that was the introduction of anti-depressant drug Zoloft via prescription some two weeks before Carly took her own life.
Not lost on me now, finally, is the wording in the "Black Box Warning" with Zoloft, which states that antidepressants may increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in persons younger than 25. Risk is especially heightened during the first two months of taking anti-depressants.
The labels on anti-depressant drugs in the U.S. were altered to reference young adults aged 18 to 24 just three years earlier - in 2007.
It is my belief, now, that Carly just happened to land among the small percentage of anti-depressant users who are susceptible to being so affected by a powerful drug such as Zoloft.
One need not ever have known such a remarkable woman to feel the pain all around at the loss of Carly Henley.
So many life lessons are so well represented by Carly Henley's compelling spirit. Let me see if I can help some to gain fuller appreciation for a woman who continues to inspire everyone who ever knew of her.
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