As a teenager in my last year of high school, I had to learn how to cope with the loss of my older cousin. I would never have thought that a family member’s death would be the most difficult thing to cope with since I have never experienced this before until now. Before the worst thing that could ever happen in my life happened, I was having the best night of my life. Well, at least I thought I was. “Oh my god!” I shouted as I grabbed the remote and turned up the tv volume. “How are you guys this loud at 1 A.M.?" I was on the couch trying to watch my all-time favorite movie, Furious 7 while there was a swarm of screaming kids running around the house shooting each other with nerf guns. Hearing them scream was way worse than the Vietnamese music my family members are blasting on the speakers right now. There was so much noise in the house that I could hardly hear myself think. I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a noise complaint from the neighbors in an hour or two. This is literally how I spend my Saturday nights. “Cindy, can you go get the door?” My aunt implored while trying to clean up the mess that my little cousins have made on her fuzzy white rug. With all the screaming and chattering that is going on in the house, I was surprised my aunt even heard the doorbell. I didn’t even hear it and I’m sitting near the door.
“Yeah, hold up.” I said as I gave my cousin the tv remote to prevent the little kids from playing with the remote.
“David probably forgot his keys
Cackle! Clunk! Something fell. The house shook as if someone put it in a blender. Shooting up, Meg quickly gets up out of bed and goes downstairs, praying that someone else would have waken up from that loud noise. As she walks down
The loss of my younger brother changed my life in ways that I couldn't have imagined at the time of his death, but I was bombarded with so many emotions and undertakings that deeply impaired my thought process.
As I put on my overcoat, a series of loudspeakers, announcements, and horns started to resonate throughout the neighborhood like an atomic bomb. It sounded awfully familiar.
A Journey in Grief: A Mothers Experience Following the Death of her Daughter by Alice W. Terry describes how the loss of someone so dear to you is unimaginable. When I was thirteen I lost my grandmother. She had been sick for a long time; I remember going to visit her in the hospital many times before she passed. The death of my grandmother was my first and only personal experience with the loss of a family member. Although this reality makes it hard for me to relate to this article at a personal level, I am truly grateful for the health and well being of those closest to me. Only being thirteen at this time, I was old enough to comprehend what had happened but I had not been old enough to truly experience the sorrow of losing someone. When I lost my grandmother, all I remember doing is crying. Although I was expressing emotion and grieving her loss, I do not remember having a conversation about what happened. How was I feeling? What is going through my head? Looking back now, it is frustrating to accept the fact that no one truly knew how to comfort me.
I’ve experienced many simple things like my my first kiss, my first F, and my first time driving. But the most significant experience in my life was the death of a close friend of mine, Miranda Arraya. Her passing happened so fast people are still in shock even a month after the news. It’s hard to type about because I miss her so much but this tramples over any other ordeal that has occured in my lifetime.
I could hear muted sobs as friends and family members began lashing out in tears. Yet, I stood still as ever as memories with my best friend began flashing in my head. I was best friends with a girl who lived right next door to me since birth. We told secrets and laughed with one another since the day I can recall my earliest memory as a child. It was unfortunate to see it all come to an end now that she was gone. All I saw was her lifeless body slowly turning pale on a stretcher stationed on her living room floor. This was one of those moments that makes you question how quickly life can take an unexpected turn. I wasn't willing to accept that
My dad's brother told me to stop playing the song, now was not the time to be playing music. He then told me to come into the kitchen with him, after going into the kitchen, I noticed prepared food and deserts on all of the counters and then I was confused. If there was a party going on why was everybody crying? He turned me around, so I was facing him as I was scanning the kitchen trying to understand why all this prepared food was here, and no one was having any. My uncle Ray looked me right in the face, and said one sentence that changed my life forever. And that sentence was “YOUR SISTER JACKIE IS DEAD.” Jackie was sixteen years old, at the time of her death. Jackie died as the result of a car crash on the way to the picnic. If my two friends and I had gone to the picnic, we would have suffered the same fate. Needless to say I Ioved my sister Jackie very much.
"Just stay down here. You can watch tv. I will be right down." I forced a stern tone and with that I went upstairs.
"Idiot!" I slap my forehead. I quickly got dress in my short and shirt and grab a knife and went into the living room.
Sitting, drinking and relaxing as if all my problems have been solved, I hear a woman yelling and it was getting louder and louder.
My brother is here!” I stepped down the stairs and heard a little mumbling. “Now Will, please take care of your niece. She may be rude, bu-”
“Bang! bang! bam! bang! bam!”, my ears perceived, reverberating from the glass downstairs at the front of our home.
The house looks much different now. You’ve made it a cheerful and pleasant place. Nonetheless, I’m going to watch over you just in case there is even a glimmer of truth that your aunt was right.”
“Calm down” my dad said but I couldn’t. Boom bam. These noises went off when I tried to hold on to the couch. I couldn't see the beautiful night pouring through the windows because of this.
“Will you turn that thing down,” she screamed. “The neighbors are going to call the police.”