Live Life & Be Humble

Yes! It is finally my senior year in high school and I could not be any happier. I can finally get into the real world and become my own person with many adventures ahead of me. I am a little scared of the road that is ahead of me but I am really beginning to realize my time is now. You know how they say "live for today, you don't know what tomorrow brings." I am starting to understand what that means. It means to live everyday like it's your last and thank God each morning for waking you up each day. I didn't really understand that until now. You really don't know when death comes. Death doesn't come knocking on your door or gives you a two weeks notice like a job does it kind of just creeps up on you like a shadow in the night. When my father died when I was younger I always asked God why did he take him from me? What was the meaning to this and what did he do wrong? I thought God was punishing us when loved ones died. But, recently when my cousin died only at the age of 20 it hit me. The good die young. She never did anything wrong always tried her best to help other people and adored everyone. The night that she died, it was just like any other night got ready for bed and checked on the baby. Until a fire started and she had no way out of the room but she could only save her baby so she threw him out the window for someone to catch. She died to save her baby and that made her an hero. Another one of my close friends had a promising career at basketball and all of a sudden she had a heart attack. No signs no nothing of her ever having something wrong with her. But, with these great losses I learned something. I learned to appreciate life more and be grateful. Some of the things I've doNe in the past liKe keeping grudges in the end it's not worth it. I remeber Mrs. Porter telling my class last year how she got into a big fight with her dad one morning and later that evening they found him dead. To this day she regrets it because she never got a chance to say bye. I don't want to be that person who fought with a friend or family member and never get the chance to make things right. Right now, I want everyone to know if I ever made any one feel some type of way I apologize. Life is sweet and I'm happy to be here.