A Stroke of Insight

When you encounter how death changes people, it changes your perspective on your life. I remember at the young age of 12 I went to my first a funeral. I may not have known the woman who passed away, but seeing how the kids (my age) were left without a mom really stuck with me. I couldn’t stop thinking that they would have no mom to cook with, watch late night movies with, or just hang out with. This really effected me as a child because I realized that this could be my family. The funeral affected my mom greatly as it was a friend of hers, and seeing the emotional state she was in was also very revealing to me. My goal from that day on was the never take advantage to the many wonderful things my mother has done for me. As I have gotten older I have experienced many deaths that I never thought would happen, but ever since that day I have lived every day thankful for my life and how fortunate I am.