Essay 1

Essay 1

Have you ever lost someone unexpectedly? Someone you thought would always be around. Which we all know is very unrealistic but we still are really ever prepared to lose anyone close to us. In my head I always thought someone passing away would be almost bitter sweet, if they were in pain or were really sick it would be to their benefit to go where they could be in pain no more. In this story that was not the case. I lost someone who was very important to me and I'm not sure that she knew that.

I had a doctor's appointment on Tuesday afternoon. I was feeling like I was coming down with a cold, so I wanted to get checked out. It was Christmas break freshman year of college. It was three days before Christmas Eve. As I was sitting in the waiting room reading the latest issue of People Magazine, waiting impatiently for my name to be called to see the doctor. One other woman was in front of me and she had just gone in to see the doctor, I knew I was going to be called shortly. As I waited, my cell phone rang and it was one of my very close friends. She sounded like she needed to talk, but I dismissed her and told her I would call her back I was about to be called in to the doctor's office. Before I could hang up, "She yelled Wait!" You need to hear this. I listening annoyed now asked "what is it Colleen? She paused a moment, and then in this low and unsettling voice she said "Lin had passed away this morning". My childhood friend I had known since I was 6 years old. My heart dropped to the floor as I hear her on the other end crying. I ask her to repeat what she had just told me, "She said Lin passed away this morning". As I sat in the crowed doctor's office feeling as if someone had just ripped my heart out, I say I'll be right over. I get up from the hard cold metal waiting room chair and head over to the receipts area. I'm in such a state of shock I actually went up there to tell the nurse I would have to make another appointment. "I have an emergency" I say in my voice you can hear me questioning myself. Is this really happening? "She says yes, sweetie go take of it". As I walk out the door and to my car in the parking lot, I feel a sense of loneliness but almost as if Lin was sitting right next to me as I'm driving down a 111th street towards Oak Lawn. With all the cars on the street, horns honking at people, all I could think of "How could this happen to a 19 year old girl"? She had so much more of her life to live. How could this have happened? The car ride to my friend's house