Something That Has Shaped My Life

Something that has shaped my life and made me who I am today is the death of my beloved brother. His name is Nathaniel Owen Cameron and in the early morning of November 22nd, 2008, my brother and a few friends were walking on a bridge that led to our little town of Trenton. Well there was someone driving home after a long day of work and started to doze off. He fully fell asleep and his car started to pull to the side of the bridge that my brother and his friends were on. Then his car hit Nathaniel and the others. My brother, was the only one who died that morning in the terrible crash. The police came to my house and informed my mother and step-father of what had happened. I came home by the company of my father bringing me and had no clue …show more content…
Until my step-father told me I should go see my mother in her room. Clueless I walk in to see my mom on the floor crying so badly I thought she was dying. So I ran over to her and gave her a soft hug and asked what was wrong. When she finally found her words she told me that we lost my brother. Me already crying from seeing my mother so torn started to cry to an extent I never thought I could cry, but still confused. I didn’t believe it to be true. I thought someone was playing a joke on me. When indeed my brother was dead. I was in so much stock I stopped crying as much and just hoped and prayed that it was all a lie. I kept on thinking we were on some show to make siblings stop arguing and get along since me and him had a big argument the last time I had seen him but no. So reality didn’t set in as quickly as I hoped for. I knew everything was going to be different. My whole life had changed. I lost my one and only sibling. Then regret poured through me as I thought of the last time I seen my brother and the argument we had. Me and him had never fought as bad as we did that day. Years later I found out he was right about the subject. Complete and utterly