Y'ever had an experience that made you question your entire life?
Reading stories or watching documentaries of tragic events often make me reflect on my past actions and choices, but hearing the news of such heart wrenching events and realising it happened this close to me? It brings something that felt far from home right before my doorstep, and even into my house. Such experiences leave you in a state of sobriety, and that, unfailingly makes you question everything you've done your entire life and think about what you're going to do with the rest of your life.
Maybe it's not the same for everyone, because we all react and handle situations differently, but for me, at that point, the circumstance sort of leaves me feeling like I have a new chance at life, you know? Correct all the mistakes I can that I've made and do the things I thought I had all the time in the world to do. I read somewhere that we always say that "time is going", but in reality, it's our time that is going, because time is infinite. I'm the one on a timeline, and it's my time that is running out, so I better make the most of it while I still can.
How did I get here? Right. I was going to say what tragic events remind me of; how frail life is, and how amidst all things, God remains good, God remains good, God remains good. I may not understand why these things happen, and it's fine, because I don't always need to. Some things are beyond us, and such is one of them. But what matters most is what I choose to set my mind on, and whose voice I choose to harken to. God's, or Satan's.