Hey everyone, this is BaByAnDiE.
I wanted to share a few things happening with my relatives and family... so read on.
About in the middle of grade 7, I came home from school, threw off my backpack, sat on the couch and pouted. I didn't make it on the basketball team. Seemed like the end of the world at the time.
I noticed my mom was quiet and wasn't saying anything, so I looked up and saw that her eyes were shiny with tears. I asked what happened and she told me: one of her oldest and bestest friends died at work! She died because there was too much pressure and work for her heart to take on, so it stopped beating... and there goes one life.
Her family has lived without her for almost a year and a half now, and her daughter still cries at night and my uncle... he'll never get over how he feels he let her die, how he let her do so much work, how he barely helped her out. Imagine the guilt.
My message in this one is, help your parents as much as you can, even if it doesn't look like they work too hard. You never know. Don't just sit on the couch and watch TV. Help out a bit and try your best to make their lives easier.
Another time, around the end of grade 7, once again I came home, happy, putting on my bathing suit to go swimming at the pool, when my dad and mom came up to me and told me to sit down and that they needed to talk to me about something. Of course I impatiently sat down, getting ready for another boring lecture about responsibility... apparently the lecture was NOT about anything boring. They told me my dad's sister (my aunt) died. She died in her sleep because her heart gave out.
I was extremely upset. She was the bestsest aunt I'd ever had, gave me presents for good report cards and every single holiday, and always came over to our house with her two sons to visit me when I was sick. She give me candy, read me a book or would bring me a Disney tape to watch. She was awesome, like a mom practically.
But I was getting kind of scared that so many of our closest friends and family were dying because of heart failure. From then on, every day I would clean up the whole house, wash the dishes, I did EVERYTHING I could. Because I was afraid that if I let my laziness take over me my parents might end up like my aunt... ='(
So that's what I wanted to say. Thank you, everyone,
BaByAnDiE.
