Events in life are what make us who we are in this present moment. Our temper and personality are mostly based on all of our life experiences, some of them stronger than the others at the point they can actually make some radical changes in each and every one of our lives. A personal life changing event of mine happened around five years ago. I had a dog and he died in a terrible accident. Because of this, I learned that life can be very short and fragile and that it is important to appreciate it and to make the most we can out of our lives while we have it. The story begins in a regular Sunday after church, my family and I decided to go to the park with some friends and relatives. Consequently, after spending some …show more content…
In the same instant I saw him hanging from his leash, an avalanche of depressing emotions took over me, making me have a multi-combination of feelings because of the emotional state transition of being happy to being the saddest kid in the whole world. Then, in a glimpse of an eye, memories started coming back of him since I saw him for the first time as a dark-brown little puppy at the store where my parents got him from. Some of them were how he used to sleep under my bed when he was scared of something, when he used to bite all the stuff we beated him with, how he used to wander around the house without the consent of anyone, and many other …show more content…
Then, the dry blood on the fence and the four claws missing from his paws revealed us as a family he loved life, and he hurt himself fighting against death with everything he got to be alive. When I got a little closer to perceive a better view of how everything happened, I new hours had happened before my family and I arrived to the accident scene; the decomposing smell around him revealed it to me while I was holding up such great suffering within me. In the moment I decided to take Goliath off from his leash, I noticed his body was probably as hard as wood, which by this point I could not hold it anymore, thinking within me, I could’ve saved him if I would’ve put him away from the fence. What happened during that moment was so strong that tears of affliction just started coming out of my eyes. If it wasn’t for my family’s comforting words, I would probably have gotten a lot worst than the way I was