This I Believe

Life is so fragile you have to cherish every moment of it. Everyday an estimated 250,000-300,000 people die per day. In that life time people should mostly enjoy it. Once when I was four I was pushed down the stairs head first and tumbled and fell down those stairs. I thought back then, ow that really hurt. Now as a 13 year old boy I now realize that I could have died by breaking my neck on that fateful day.

When you take a view of death it is a very sad occasion but a happy one as well. When my grandfather died at the old age of 90, I was shocked. When we had gone to the funeral down in North Carolina, it was a very hard experience. Everybody cried including my older brother who was at that time 19. The funny thing about it was when he died back in a hospital he had a smile on his face. The strange thing is that nobody not even the nurses put his face like that, so I know that he had died a happy death. He had fulfilled everything he wanted to do and then it was his time to “come home”.

My Grandfather was a man who enjoyed every bit of his life and so did my Grandmother; she was 89 on my dad’s side. She was a foundation in all of our lives and how she and my grandfather both affected the generations to come. With their peaceful deaths, how has our definition of death changed over the years? Has it become such a careless thing that we throw it away for respect and money?

Has the word death become such an easy and normal word that it would be strange if the news didn’t announce it every morning? I tell you now that death is not such an easy thing to swallow down. If you think of the families that are affected by it, like a mother whose son was killed in a gang fight, or a brother who sees their sister killed by a stranger. These people cannot swallow death either.

I believe that if u die u should die with happiness, not out of revenge or sadness, but with happiness. You should always try to live the life that would make you happy and remember it for the rest of your life. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson. This statement I agree with cause you should live your life to the fullest no matter how long you have left; please don’t be part of the people who die unhappy.