Submitted by: Submitted by calpico
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Pages: 5
Category: English Composition
Date Submitted: 10/01/2010 06:39 AM
Events sculpt who you become
You are constantly being shaped. Your attitude constantly moulded. Your experience forever increasing. In your life and after it ends.
In the afterlife, on the anniversary of your death, you become a spirit and you inhabit a dandelion seed as you flutter through the city of your death, cradled by the soft gusts of wind.
This year was no different. Like every other year, you visit your graveyard first. You float above autumn trees that scatter a kaleidoscope of colours, of amber, lime and gold onto the palette that is the asphalt road that leads to your grave and you pass sculptures that appear just that minutely different each year worn down by the rain the features diminished slightly. You land on your tombstone. But this time there is no one crying by your grave. This time they have forgotten about you.
You begin to wonder why your parents aren’t here and you begin to find your way back to your house feeling ambivalent, unable to decide how you should react. Happiness that your family was finally able to get on with their lives or anger that you had already been forgotten.
You begin to reminisce as you observe the city around you. You remember your sickness. You remember that for a while your friends and your family had tried to pretend you that you were no different to them. That you weren’t an outcast, but one of them. But ultimately you noticed. You noticed, the way they slowed their pace to a solemn saunter whenever they were around you so they could keep up with you. You noticed, how they repeatedly asked if you were fine each time you fumbled, quickly putting a hand under you elbow to support your weight. You noticed, the piercing silences that echoed when you entered a room, the chatter cut short and their attention turned straight towards you. At dinner you noticed, the annoying little brother that used to pull on your ponytail, took up your role of setting out the plates and food before dinner, even asking you if there...