This is what our 11 year old daughter, Ashley wrote about her feelings after the "911 Attack". I might not agree entirely with her philosophy, but I greatly admire her ability to express her feelings so articulately at her age. Not one word or punctuation mark has been modified from her original text.
That’s the
Way Life Is
People say that life isn’t fair…they’re 100% correct. Life is a journey that we need to take seriously. There are bumps and curves along the way. Problems, despair, and sorrow follow in the path behind you. The consequences of life can be happy or even…tragic. Like the lives that were lost in the terrorism act on Tuesday September 11, 2001. I’ve learned from that day that it doesn’t matter where you are, but when it’s your time to go…it’s your time to go. You can’t choose when your life will end or whether you will live forever. When God invites you up to his place, you can’t say, “ I don’t want to go now. I have too much ahead of me.” God won’t listen. When that time comes for you to meet your maker, you have to go. There’s no holding back or hanging onto the white picket fence in your front yard. There’s no holding onto your dog’s collar or your cat’s scratch post. You just have to face the fact that your life has ended. As you walk up the royal staircase, God sits in his royal throne awaiting your arrival. The relatives or friends of all the people that perished on September 11th of this year need all the pity and comforting they can get. You never know the day, the time, or the place that you will die. You can’t set your alarm clock for a certain time in life to die. God chooses for you. People die and are born each day. When my time comes, I will not waste a single second on being hesitant. My maker wants me and I shan’t make him wait. In conclusion, the journey of life is not fair in anyway. We lose family members, friends, pets, and homes.
Life just isn’t fair.