Heartbreaking Experience

Life is like a bar of soap, when you just start to feel that you have grasped it, it slips away. Life is often taken for granted, and sometimes the simple things in life are not fully appreciated. Unlike life, death is a scary reality that no one thinks about until they’re standing over their loved one watching them being buried in the ground. Death is not a game or a joke, it 's a heartbreaking and bitter experience. I learned that the hard way when I lost my Uncle Todd to Leukemia almost three years ago. My Uncle Todd had been struggling with Leukemia for four long years. When I first found out about his sickness, I never thought about the end results. I assumed that he would receive treatment and everything would be alright. Unfortunately, most of the time he got worse and worse. He lost just about all of his hair, lost around 60 pounds, and was in and out of the hospital. He would spend weeks and sometimes months at a time in the hospital. He even stayed in a nursing …show more content…
This saddening experience taught me a lesson about life, and love and taking advantage of the time I get with my family. It taught me that life is too important, and nothing is to be taken for granted. I learned that telling people you love them is so important, because you have no idea when you may never get to tell them again. I also learned that it is stupid to be selfish and fight about little petty things that don’t even matter. Meanwhile there are people out there like my Uncle Todd who lived through hell, and we sit here and complain about who gets the front seat in the car or who goes first in line. Being selfless is not any easy task, but I try my hardest every day to be more thankful for everything my friends and family do for me. I try to let them know how much I appreciate them and love them. Yes, this may be a bit cliché, but it is something I had to learn and realize through an awful