CrystalNoellyn

Have you ever tried to save someone’s life, knowing that it was useless? Has anyone you ever know been in such a horrifying danger that you should be frozen, statue-like, yet you’re the first in action but the farthest one away? How does life prepare you for those things? How can so many bad things all happen in one day? You’ve probably never seen a 5 year old drowning. Not on TV, but in real life, right in front of you. How can anything prepare a person for that? How can it be explained that as your mind is immobilized with fear, your body is moving as quick as light? And when you grab that 5 year old and remove him from harm, shelter him in the hold of your arms, all you can think about is not letting anyone near him who can harm him? So precious a life; living yet constantly slipping away. You’re always there, protecting him at all cost, even at your own life’s cost, but as each day passes, with each minute passed, you know that brings him even closer to the harsh reality, to death. Wanting to protect and shield him from all pain, yet wanting him to learn the world’s truth and to be able to hold his own. After seeing his life almost wash away in the water he had been sinking in, all you can think about is all the things he may never get to do, yet all the things he may do. How can you be prepared for something like that? Are you being prepared for not his death, but your own? How can one explain that?