Keith DaCosta

1/15/07

Listen to me

The Advice I Have Given

A friend of mine once told me she hated her life. It killed me hearing those words come out of her mouth since I too was a part of the life as much as she was a part of mine. She told me of how she wanted to run away. How she hated her family and despised her friends. She even told me how she had never been happy in her life. I asked her why she felt this way. She said it was because she felt incomplete. Felt we had no purpose since we will all die someday. She found everything we do in our lives to be completely pointless. She even told me that she was going to leave me and everything else in her so called rotten life. She never told me how she planned to do it but all she cared about was that it would happen. I then reminded her of the ones who loved her. How we would mourn her.

She said she did not care. She said she owed the world nothing, not even an explanation. I told her of the things she would be leaving behind I told her of what she caused. I told her how I would feel empty without her. Years and years I have given her advice that she never listened to or even gave a chance, but a miracle happened that night. For weeks I had lost my faith, questioned my beliefs. I felt that I had failed her. I remember the last thing I had said to her up to that point. “Everyone can change.” I now felt as if that were a lie. Days went by and I could feel my anger growing with each day I didn’t hear from her. Until one day she called. A miracle happened that day. I found my faith once again. As it turned out I never failed her at all. Fate had simply stepped in and instead of failing her, I had saved her.