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Life Was Precious To Me Before The Chaos
A Car Wreck & Hurricane Helene all in 24 hrs.
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I ‘ll admit that I take a lot of things for granted, but one thing, I truly feel like I don’t take for granted is my life and ESPECIALLY the lives of my loved ones. My wreck didn’t make that any clearer. In all honesty, I didn’t walk away with any more appreciation for life than I already had.
I was thankful for God’s protection over my life and the lives of the others’ involved. It’s not that I left the scene shrugging off the miracle that happened. I just didn’t have that overwhelming feeling of, “I didn’t appreciate my life before this.”
Life is a gift, and it’s not something to take for granted or throw away easily. I knew that before and after my wreck.
On my eighth birthday, I cried, because I knew that if I was getting older, everyone else was too. There’s a five and eight year age gap between me and my older siblings. I didn’t want to grow up and be the only one left behind.
My dad and I used to argue when I was a teenager. The next morning when he would leave for work, I would start crying and praying for his protection. I didn’t want our…
