Life Changing Event Analysis

Life Changing Events

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
good time playing football and eating steak, my family and I finally came back home. This is where the sad part of the story begins. I still remember exactly how everything like if it was yesterday. We were all getting comfortable when we arrived to the house, then I heard my sister saying “Oh my God, Goliath is dead,” then I started to worry a little about what was going on, also thinking she was just joking about it. When I got out of my room I saw my sister looking out the window, telling me with her surprised and sad expression she wasn’t joking about it. When I stuck my head out of the backyard window to see what happened, I saw Goliath, my Labrador dog, hanged on the other side of the fence.
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
memories. While in the accident scene, I saw Goliath hanging from his green colored leash, which it made it look like if he jumped over the seven feet fence, hanging up himself from the other side, without any base to hold himself up against gravity; his weight was the killer of his own innocent life.
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
feeling. As my parents were driving around El Paso looking for a place to dump the body of my dog, I realized how important it is to learn how to appreciate all the things a person can have in life while it exists. In my case, I took my dog for granted, and probably many other things I still have for the grace of God. I never thought he was going to die so young; he was only four years old, and neither in such a terrible way. When my parents and I were looking for a place to dump my dog’s body I was thinking about all the things I never did with him during the time he was still alive. All my dreams to play with him, to see him grow and get old, and to see his offspring, had all disappeared in just one second.
Therefore, thinking on another point of view, I know God let me go through this for a reason, and I’m glad it happened this way. Could have been worst than my dog, but it didn’t happened that way. Because of that, after I got over with my dog’s accident, my life revolutionized in a totally positive way. If it wouldn’t had happened such situation in my life, I would probably be the same selfish guy that doesn’t know how important it is to know that life and things are not always going to be there for one, that if one doesn’t take care of what he or she has, soon it’s going to be gone, and that it is necessary for one to make the most out of every single second of life because no one knows when everything is going to be over.