Personal Narrative: The Possibility Of Death

When we’re young, we think that nothing can hurt us, we’re invincible, and there’s a good chance we can live forever. We want to do many things that are risky and questionable without even thinking about the possibility of death. We don't realize what could've happened until we are older and have more of a realization of death and its entirety. At seventeen, I have had my fair share of near death experiences and look back and think to myself how life could be over in an instant. Death isn't really about if and how it’s going to happen, but when it’s going to happen. In Steve Job’s 2005 commencement speech for Stanford University, he states, “Remembering I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the
We should try not to live by ordinary standards, but we should take life, and what we do with it, to the fullest potential. We, as people, should stop being so scared to venture out and try new things. Death is an inevitable thing faced by every living organism on earth. Jobs states at the end of his speech, “And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it.” This statement, I feel, has really crossed everyones mind at some point in their life. We come to a realization that there really isn't enough time to do what we want to do. Everything that we want to accomplish soon seems like we are unable to do so because of this realization that life isn't that long. The subject of death can either be a positive or negative title for people. Jobs had covered both sides of the story talking about his pre and post cancer story. Our short lives should really be about living rather than surviving. There’s so much to do in so little time, so might as well have fun in doing whatever it is we decide to do. Death isn’t really about if and how it’s going to happen, but when it’s going to