The Death Of Death - Original Writing

The sound of my alarm fills the room its 10:30 A.M. I pressed snooze over five times and when I finally got up it was 12:50 in the morning!

I felt that I was starting over and over again” (Beah

This morning I drifted between consciousness and sleep while everyone bustled around getting ready. They all get up so early and seem to stomp around the house for what feels like an hour before they finally leave. When the noise had subsided

I roll over in bed, still tired from my early morning/18:00 shift, thinking about the fiery girl and boy pair from Twelve.

I wake up to the alarm clock blaring loudly in my ear. Next, I rise slowly

A moment is defined as a brief period of time. The average lifespan of a person consists of 27,375 days, that is 39,420,000 minutes (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). Within those hundreds of thousands of minutes, humans have the endless opportunity to experience a moment. A significant moment in my life was when I was sexually assaulted seven years ago. For a long time this moment held a negative impact on my life. Nonetheless, this moment is also what taught me how to love myself, forgive and that life keeps going. My sexual assault taught me, one moment will not define the rest of my life.

phone. My teacher tried to defend me, but she was like the teacher doesn’t know me and what

many wounds, and has freed my mind from the cuffs of mental illness. These demons are still

A moment is defined as a brief period of time. (Merriam Webster) The average lifespan of a person consists of 27,375 days, that is 39,420,000 minutes. Within those hundreds of thousands of minutes humans have the opportunity to experience a moment. These experiences can be either good, bad or neutral. A significant moment in my life was the moment I was sexually assaulted. For a long period of time that experience held a negative impact in my life but also taught me that there are too many ongoing experiences to let one moment define the rest.

up, and from that moment on, my life was no longer geared toward settling down, but in a

Another student gave me a weird look as if he wanted to harm me. Little did I know, he was one of the toughest kids in my grade level, and he had the biggest crush on Andrea. His name was Billy.

I groaned at the incessant beeping of my alarm clock, rolling over to search for the snooze. I had stayed up until midnight the previous night with an engrossing book, and I was by no means ready to get up now.

2 o'clock, I see shops start to close, people start to head inside, its time for a siesta, i head back to my apartment and close my eyes.

I roll over onto my side turning off my alarm looking at the time 6:15. I stare at my phone for a moment then set it back down curling into a ball under the covers. I'm not getting up I refuse to go to school, and

SO”. Once things became tough in life and the feeling of emptiness and the void became so intense too