Live Like You Are Dying Poem Analysis

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The song Live Like You are Dying by Tim McGraw meant a lot to me in the summer of 2014. That was the summer that I seemed to struggle a lot with deaths, injuries and hospital visits. It seemed as if everywhere I went something bad would happen. I felt like I could not escape what was happening. I Wanted out of this bad dream, but I knew that it was far from a dream. I just hoped that things would not get worse.That year I thought I cried so much that year that I felt like I could not shed one more tear. how will I survive?
I was on My way home from Quiktrip with my sister and my friend Camryn and my aunt in the middle of the intersection and “bam” the car crashed.the airbags were deployed and I realised that we were in a car wreck. Everyone in my family was shaken up from that. I felt like I could not breath I felt like I was dying. Two months before the car crash my dad had a heart attack. he was ok and I got to see him in the hospital and he was out a few days later. That was the most scariest thing that happened. All I could smell was the smell of burning tires that was nasty. I felt like I was going to have a panic attack. I Could taste the salt of the tears streaming down my face. No one was majorly injured I mean a sprained wrist, but not much at all. Once we got home after the accident occurred I went to go feed my guinea pig when I realized that he was dead to this day we still don’t know how my guinea pig died I guess that will just be a mystery . I thought to myself, could my life get any worse, I knew that it would.
About a week later, my mom gets a call from my grandpa saying that my great grandma passed away. I was devastated by the news.the
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maybe my great grandma had cancer for a reason and that my volleyball coach died, that my dad had a heart attack and two months later we got in a car accident, everything happens for a reason.

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