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Life Is Taken For Granted

Think of life as a gift and not something you deserve...

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Life Is Taken For Granted
Nixel Ortiz

The human life is so precious, you never know when it will be taken away from you. There are so many stories that are out there today about how people getting their life taken away. Then, when you get on social media you see people posting “Sorry for the loss and I will praying for you” or “This should be a lesson to all human beings”. My first thought is that people care after the life is taken away and no one cares about those people until they are gone. In addition to that, you hear that beautiful saying that everyone says on their social media the saying. The saying is, “We need to something about this problem” and every time I hear this I’m over here saying “really” then we should actually do something about it, but when we do, something else comes along and makes us forget about what happened.

No one should not go through the feeling of sadness, because you never thought you would be there but you will be and it will hurt and you will have no idea how to handle it. Just think about what the Stanford victim feels today, not knowing what is going through her head and how she is going to be in future. I always wanted to hear their side of story, but we all know how hard that will be. One thing that got me so mad was Brock Turner's family made a Facebook page for support. Like really? Why does he need support? He should get what he deserved! If you think the Facebook page is a satire, it's not. Here is the link if you don’t believe me.

It could've been anyone! You might of heard about the alligator story. The story is about the alligator took a child and took the child into the water. Unfortunately the child died. The parents of child tried everything they could to save their child. I could never imagine the pain of losing a child. I wouldn’t be the same person. The reason why I picked this story as my second point is because these parents are getting hated on by how they left their child alone, which is not true. People are taking things out of context, not realizing that they lost a child for crying out loud. Just because they are white skin and they had the misfortune of what happened to them happen in the same month as the gorilla accident. People are really trying to take this to a race issue which it is not. We need to start realizing what our real problems and forget about what color our skin is.

So many people don’t know what it's like to lose happiness and not get it back. In my town we had two car accidents that ended the life of one to three teenagers. I realize that every day is a lesson but you can’t take life for granted because you never know. I have had people get taken away and it was really hard but I can tell you one thing, it gets easier to deal with, but you will never forget. Life is is a gift and you truly don’t know when it gone!

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