Blink: A Short Story

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Most of our days come and go in a blur, uneventful and of negligible importance. In the midst of the blur every now and then life hits you with moments that unleash a cascade of emotion that will be permanently embedded in your mind forever. That kind of memory that makes sleep an impossible task when that memory comes crashing back into your mind at 3 in the morning. That kind of memory that awakened you from your slumber and made you able to see the world far more clearly. That kind of memory that took consumed the person you were and transformed you into someone alien to whom you once were. If my life were to be summarized into a timeline of events, the first to make it on this timeline of my life would be the time I realized that death surrounds us and can come in the blink …show more content…

Six years ago, when I was a rambunctious child who knew nothing about anything, I had been stuck in Brazil with my family for over a month and I was getting impatient, constantly bugging my parents to leave so I could go spend what was left of my summer with my friends. Don’t get me wrong, the shenanigans me and the dozens of cousins I met that summer were the highlight of my childhood, but seeing all your friends on facebook having fun without you hits you hard at that age. I was oceans away missing out on all the inside jokes, summer nights, and pranks. Days passed, most of which I spent on the hammock outside overlooking the little town in the middle of no where of Brazil I had come to know and love. It was a Friday. The day was dewy and the streets were coated with puddles. The faint sound of the Brazil game hung in the air, barely audible to me anymore since I had become so accustomed to soccer blaring on the tv screen all

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