But it was not the same drained feeling I got after venting all of my anger. This is good though. Death is not something that one just deals with right away and then forgets about it. This tragedy will stay with me for quite some time. Eventually it will not consume my thoughts and cause me to look at life differently but it will stay with me in the back of my mind. Maybe years down the road when I am teaching a high school English class, I will give my students an assignment that brings this memory back to the front of my mind. Perhaps the next time I hear about the death of a young kid, who had his whole life in front of him, this memory will make its way back to the surface. If it does, I will reach for a pen and a piece of paper and
But it was not the same drained feeling I got after venting all of my anger. This is good though. Death is not something that one just deals with right away and then forgets about it. This tragedy will stay with me for quite some time. Eventually it will not consume my thoughts and cause me to look at life differently but it will stay with me in the back of my mind. Maybe years down the road when I am teaching a high school English class, I will give my students an assignment that brings this memory back to the front of my mind. Perhaps the next time I hear about the death of a young kid, who had his whole life in front of him, this memory will make its way back to the surface. If it does, I will reach for a pen and a piece of paper and