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Personal Narrative: Realization Of Death

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Realization of Death

Have you ever witnessed death? To me, seeing death, before your own eyes is the most “eye opening” experience that you can ever have. I have only witnessed this once within my lifetime and it was the passing of somebody I never knew. Seeing this man’s final demise has scarred me. It has given me a whole new outlook on life. When I was younger I thought of death as something “far away,” as if it would be a really long time before I could reach it. However, after seeing this man die I learned that life is very precious and it is the most valuable thing that you can possess. This moment in my life all started when I was 9 years old. I was skiing on a crowded run. There was this man who was struggling to find his way down, almost like a deer trying to walk on ice. Immediately, my young mind judged him. I thought that he was bad at skiing but of course I didn’t care enough to assist him. Instead, I just carried on with my life, pretending I had never seen this man and never even thought of of him. This man’s fate was so terrible that I could not even comprehend it until it …show more content…

I was shocked to see that the man was now skiing down the run a little better and he was picking up speed. Then he passed me and hit a bump. This bump caused his ski to pop off and send him falling down the hill like a tumbleweed on a desert road. He slid down the hill and behind another bump, so I could not see him anymore. There were people skiing down the hill to go help him. They were probably wondering whether or not he was okay, but I was not. I just thought watching someone crash was funny, and I did not think that it was life threatening. So, I just assumed that he would be fine, and if he did get injured, he would be helped by the ski patrol. I never realized that at that moment, when he disappeared out of sight, he had lost his

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