Today, I am trying to put the pieces back together. No, nothing tangible has broken. Instead, the pieces are specific answers that I am searching for. Trying to figure out why things happen in life the way they do.
Why a young life can be taken from this world for no apparent reason.
Why a person would drive around on drugs, after having his license revoked 4 times prior.
Why a group of kids would act upset about somebody's death only to get out of class and hang out with their friends.
Why a world breeds such ignorance and insensitivity.
Why a death should bring about the only reflection given to one's life.
Why a person's efforts in life shouldn't be rewarded more often.
Why we all can come and go at any point.
Why the world and everyone who inhabits it can't be all good-natured and warm towards one another?
Read this news article about this young girl who died when she was killed by a driver believed to be on drugs: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-lifune0225,0,3358507.story
Angelica sat in the front seat, second from the right. She always had her hand up. She always asked what more she could do to do better. She was the only student to give me a Christmas card my first year teaching. And now she'll have to be remembered only by those acts she so graciously completed during her 14 years on this cruel, unfair Earth.
Angelica was my student, and she always will be my student.
Maybe she'll help me put the puzzle together, to help me understand this cruel and unfair life, where evil always seems to triumph over good in the unfortunate end.
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