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Life in a Sudden Death

           

Its early afternoon, when things suddenly went from good to wrong. All terrible things that you can imagine to happen to a teenager happened to me. Life means nothing when these kinds of things are happening to you. That feeling when you want to die knowing that your life would mean nothing if you continue living. Probably, I was thinking about that. I decided to just walk away and start a new journey of life all by myself.

A walk in a park starts my journey. A frowning face fills my head. Different voices talk to me and saying, “Just die for the better.” Bitterness fills the air like I was struck by thunder and hurricane at the same time. As I walk to the pathways of the park, I see a guy sitting on the bench and seem like crying. I approach him and say what’s going on and if he is alright. The guy just opened his book and stare at me with sadness. He said that even fellow Christian do not believe him. His books were published but they needed to beg money for it to be published. He was sentenced into jail after he was caught by the guards of the Spanish men by a reason that his books were insulting to the government. Even though he fought for the good without shedding blood on anyone’s body., but still, he was sentence to death and he say to me that his death penalty will be occurring tomorrow on this very park. He holds my shoulders and whispers, “Even though your life is in a storm, try to look up and search for the sun.” This is the time that I realized that I will waste my life by being bitter about the happenings that occurred and occurring to me. But instead I made a decision that I will do anything with hard work to turn around things and fight for the good. The man stood up, he gave me his book and said farewell to me. When read the pages of the book, it is quite old and when I look at its title, it is “Noli Me Tangere” That moment, I guess that the guy beside me earlier is no other than Dr. Jose P. Rizal. I stood up and I walk back to our house.

When you feel like you are the worst person in the world, think for a second. There are many people that sacrificed their lives just for you. Don’t attempt to end your life because it is the greatest gift that God had given us. Enjoy your life and live it to the fullest. Don’t just give up for problems. Be strong and take it lightly and work hard to solve it and to have a better life. Turn around and see people, they have problems too.