Bombs Bursting In Air Analysis

Life Happens A news headline states that hundred and twenty people die in a factory explosion and forty people are injured. Do you not go to work because there might be a fire? The CDC found E. coli four states away. Do you only use bottled water the rest of your life? In an essay titled “Bombs Bursting in Air”, by Beth Johnson she tells of hard experiences that is called upon by her daughter’s friend having a brain tumor. Johnson mentions the reaction her son and daughter give after the news is told to them and how they reacted. Johnson’s views on these hardships are equated to bombs going off and the after effect they have on people. Although misfortune happens in life, it should not keep people from living to their fullest potential. People have bad experiences every day, no matter the age, the world keeps spinning. People often have a time of grief, but over time grief becomes bearable. Johnson states after the death of her best friend,” Time moved on and I with it” (Johnson 197). If a loved one dies some people feel as if their world stops turning, even though the world carries on outside of your cocoon of hurt. The aftershock of the explosion shouldn’t stop a person forever after a time of grief a …show more content…
In life everything has a cost, whether you like the price or not, that you will pay. Johnson tells the reader what she believes that price is, “The price of allowing ourselves to truly live, to love and be loved, is (and its ultimate irony) the knowledge that the greater our investment in life, the larger the target” (Johnson 197). The price of living equals the cost of death. The reward that price gives is greater than the cost. Avoiding living not only protects you from sadness but also happiness. Johnson Mentions,” If we have courage to keep our eyes opening welcoming, even bombs finally fade” (Johnson 197). Johnson reinstates that nothing last forever. Bombs fade into the distance after