[Seth]

Originally Posted by Dylflon

It's weird to think that someone that's the same age as you could die. Makes you think about mortality and how real the possibility of your own death is.

Last night a girl in mine and Typhoid's grade died from a brain tumor. I didn't know her all that well but it's still very unsettling.

It never really dawns on anyone how real the threat of death is. Any random moment could be your last. But not many people actually realise this. You don't take the fact that you're going to be dead someday seriously. Almost as if you think that you'll be the one person to defy science and never die.

I was talking to my friends about one of us dying. Statistically there is usually one or two kids who die every year or so. I consider the possibility pretty much daily. Whenever I get into my car I get a thought or two about it. We take everything for granted. I know a lot of good kids who have died from someone else driving while drunk. Freak accidents. Live everday like it's your last. Easy to quim. Hard to actually impliment into everyday life.

I'm more determined now not to waste the set amount of time I have left. It's kind of funny how you take life for granted until someone you know dies.

Find something to remind yourself regularely...otherwise this lesson will be overshadowed by other stuff.


edit: It's also stuff like this that makes you reflect about how you take the people around you for granted. There are chances everyday where you can talk to people who could very well turn out to be a great friend. Instead we just mind our own business. I see it while on the city bus quite a bit. Everyone just stares in one spot without talking. shame.