BAM! The sound of a devastating bomb exploding in the distance. People screaming about the ones they’ve lost, and the trauma they’ve just endured. It seems in today’s world, bombs can be discovered on every corner of every street. Everyone has their own type of explosions erupting in their life, and they forever change the way people see their lives. As for me, I have been blessed with a lot of things in life; as a result, I haven’t been exposed to very many life threatening bombs, sadly this only lasted until I was in eighth grade.
The day started as a normal, beautiful spring day; however, in the event a bomb does explode, one wouldn’t see it coming. I, an innocent little eighth grader, was preparing to attend my first Saturday school. I …show more content…
We watched movies, played games, talked, and laughed but that feeling I got when I was in choir was still in the pit of my stomach. Things just didn’t feel right without John and his two closest friends ended up not coming also, but I knew there was nothing I could do about it so I shoved it to the side. Later in the night as I was sitting watching The Conjuring, I received a group message from an unknown number, and what I read absolutely terrified me. Here I am 14 years old, now standing in the middle of the hallway alone, and not knowing what to do. At this point I have two options, tell the news, or keep things to myself and let others find out on their own. I knew what I immediately had to do, so I went up to my two guy friends Cole and Landry and explained that our friend, the one that changed lives, was dead. I relate to the author of “Bombs Away” in the aspect that we were both dumb to believe we could avoid bad experiences. She explains that she never fully believed that anything bad could happen to her, but then her best friend committed suicide. I had never experienced a death before. Everyone that has died around me either passed when I was very little or when I wasn’t born. How was I supposed to react to finding out that one of my closest friends was
The day started as a normal, beautiful spring day; however, in the event a bomb does explode, one wouldn’t see it coming. I, an innocent little eighth grader, was preparing to attend my first Saturday school. I …show more content…
We watched movies, played games, talked, and laughed but that feeling I got when I was in choir was still in the pit of my stomach. Things just didn’t feel right without John and his two closest friends ended up not coming also, but I knew there was nothing I could do about it so I shoved it to the side. Later in the night as I was sitting watching The Conjuring, I received a group message from an unknown number, and what I read absolutely terrified me. Here I am 14 years old, now standing in the middle of the hallway alone, and not knowing what to do. At this point I have two options, tell the news, or keep things to myself and let others find out on their own. I knew what I immediately had to do, so I went up to my two guy friends Cole and Landry and explained that our friend, the one that changed lives, was dead. I relate to the author of “Bombs Away” in the aspect that we were both dumb to believe we could avoid bad experiences. She explains that she never fully believed that anything bad could happen to her, but then her best friend committed suicide. I had never experienced a death before. Everyone that has died around me either passed when I was very little or when I wasn’t born. How was I supposed to react to finding out that one of my closest friends was