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Life Can Be Taken Away Essay

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When I was growing up, my parents always asked me, “Do you really want to learn everything the hard way?”. I was always found where danger was, risking my life for the sensational feeling of adrenaline pulsing through my veins. I lived for the anticipation of knowing something bad could happen. Thankfully, as I grew older, I learned to gain wisdom from other people’s mistakes rather than my own. Rick Bragg and I both learned which risks are worth taking and that life can be taken away in an instant. It was late June of 2015. It was pretty early, around seven and I was driving on I-26 heading toward my church for an event called serve day where we go into the community and help them. As we drove around the bend, I saw an enormous cloud of smoke crawling into the sky, consuming everything it touched. The flames had to have reached over 150 feet high and were as wide as the highway. There were only a couple of other cars at the scene of the wreck, and I was stopped only a few football fields away. The accident consisted of a tanker and two other cars. Since it just happened, there was a hope within us all that something could be done to save them. A few men got in their trucks and tried to push the cars out of the flames repeatedly with no results. With every push they gave the cars, the more and more my heart broke. My hope was disappearing, like sand in-between someone’s fingers. It was the worst feeling ever to see people burning alive before my eyes, knowing there

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