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One day you can wake up and your entire life may change, in the blink of a dry eye, the beat of a shattered heart, the drop of a tear, the passing of a second of your once happy life. Two years ago I was the happiest girl to walk down the streets of Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. Always smiling, always laughing, jaws aching from the happiness my sketchy visage drew.
Yet in that passing of time. In that pulse of my demolished heart, my life changed. My, entire, life changed.
He was the only man I ever loved. My best friend, my hero the strongest non-fictional character of my comic-strip life. My father. And he was diagnosed with cancer. Tears of blood ran through my veins never leaving, building up in the pores of my rough skin. Puddles of pain I couldn’t let drain from my body.
From that point on, my life was miserable. I never smiled, I never laughed. I no longer cared about my appearance, or my friends or the rest of the world. My school work had no importance to me, and everything, I once loved, I let go of. Along will my happiness.
Life was hard, for the longest time, but in time I became the happy upbeat person I once was. I began dancing again, I began smiling, spending time with my friends, and most importantly I began talking again. I got tired of being upset. And I once again changed my life around. I became the optimistic girl I was before, instead of the chubby girl who leaned against the school lockers and broke down crying in the middle of the day. After my life changed unexpectedly, I changed it too.
This goes to show, that in any moment, when you are least expecting it, your life can change. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. It can change in the smallest proportion or it can become an enormous event. It also shows that you have the power to change your life. Life changes happen to every one, but you have to find a way to deal, a way to live again, to breathe again, to smile, because only you have the control to change it back.