https://www.audacitymagazine.com/growing-up-with-death-and-embracing-an-audacious-life/ Lifestyle Magazine for the Physically Disabled Sat, 25 Mar 2023 20:56:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://www.audacitymagazine.com/growing-up-with-death-and-embracing-an-audacious-life/#comment-42875 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:39:34 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=2898#comment-42875 […] If you’d like to read my article on death, click here. […]

]]> https://www.audacitymagazine.com/growing-up-with-death-and-embracing-an-audacious-life/#comment-42874 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:26:25 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=2898#comment-42874 […] If you’d like to read my article on death, click here. […]

]]> https://www.audacitymagazine.com/growing-up-with-death-and-embracing-an-audacious-life/#comment-37920 Tue, 28 Jul 2015 02:19:00 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=2898#comment-37920 Very touching subject & sensitive to say the least. With the recent passing of my daughter, I know this subject all too well. However I can’t say that as a child I noticed many of my friends being stolen from me through death. I attended a school for children with special needs as well, all the way up through high school. I only recall an incident once during 9th grade. A student with cerebral palsy was rushed to the nurses station while I was down there having my chair serviced by the PT. I witnessed them rushing and calling, screaming at each other to do this or that. It was rather scary because I didn’t know what was going on. But I did realize that whatever it was, it wasn’t good. That week I struggled to sleep after having bad dreams of her reaching to me for help. I didn’t know this young lady personally, just idly passed each other in the halls. I never knew much about her, honestly couldn’t even tell you her name [at the time] But for some reason, after that incident, I wanted to know all about her. When death took her on that journey, I found myself wondering about that “different” place beyond the clouds and how I couldn’t understand how death could take someone so young, as I was under the impression that it only took the old & destitute. At least that’s what It seemed to be like in my family. I’ve lost many people as a young age due to death, but they were always older. So you can imagine why I was confused. Even at the tender age of 14, I finally felt that if death could take her, was I next? Death is sneaky, vicious & slithers quietly among the ill-concerned, until it hits close to home. It’s something that I’ve never worried about as a child. That was the best part of childhood…..Living worry free. Dealing with death’s unwelcomed hand at an impressionable age can cause some lifelong scars. But they also prepare you to cope with life’s ever changing tides.

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