A girl in my school died last night

[Dylflon]

May.31/2004

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.

She was only 16 or 17. That's probably the most disturbing thing about it. That's far too short of a lifetime.

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.