Posted by Amanda Nguyen on October 16, 2009 at 6:21am
Amanda NguyenArts & Architecture 10I am a daughter, a sister, a friend, a listener, a student, a musician, a dancer, a creator, and much more. One label cannot describe who I am. However, I’m always trying to make people happy and listening to every word they say to show that I care and that I am supportive. I attempt to compliment anyone I can, every chance I can get and show love to those who are 100% there for me. All I want to do is to be able to make those I love proud of me, and those I barely know to smile and feel good about themselves. Because I realized from one incident, how fast people can step out of your lives….It was an accident. I never really knew him. He ate lunch at the same long table as my friends and I. He was always there with one or two people eating. He always had a smile, talking and laughing with his friends and one day my friend introduced me to him. Some days I’d say “HI!” or “I really like your shirt” or “Your shoes are awesome, I want to get a pair of those.”For weeks and months it went by as nothing. Just a casual acquaintance you’d smile at once in a while. Then one day, during the announcements in first period…”lets have a moment of silence for Patrick DeMesa”Heads turned and whisperings began. “What happened?!”He was with some friends, walking across on the crosswalk from Target. Apparently a person got a heart attack while driving and the vehicle drove straight into a car waiting at the stop light and pushed the car forward, hitting Patrick. Killing him on contact.The day before I saw him with his group of friends. The next day he was gone. I barely knew him. He still had an impact on me. It made me think…Life is short. Seconds go by. Life still goes on. You can never stop time. People come and go. You have one life...so I make the most of it…for everyone
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