Once I was able to get over that anger and hatred with myself, it made me realize how truly precious
“At the beginning of my senior year, I asked a girl if she wanted to go to homecoming with me and she said yes she would. We were pretty good friends so we were excited to go together. About a week later, I was driving and a bee got into my car and stung me inside my pants on my inner thigh and caused me to crash my truck into the car in front of me. We were going about 45 miles per hour down the highway at each other and the next thing I knew, my truck was in the ditch and the car in front of me was destroyed. I immediately thought that I just had killed somebody so I ran over to the car and to the door that was cracked and I saw that it was my homecoming date. Her car was completely totaled and it was cracked and there was blood everywhere—all over the windows and her body. I had to pry open her car door and try to get her body out onto the road. She had so much glass in her face that I could barely recognize who she was. I was able to get her out of the car and we got her medical attention. It was a long journey for her recovery, but today she is doing good. This situation made me angry, upset, and confused with myself. It made me so scared knowing that I almost killed one of my friends. Once I was able to get over that anger and hatred with myself, it made me realize how truly precious life is and you have to use what is given to you at any moment and make it yours every day. You can’t sacrifice what you have in front of you and you have to make the best of it. God really spoke to my heart that day and I now know that he had a bigger plan for my life than killing me and her in the accident. He showed me that even through all of the bad things that happen, there is always a bigger and better plan—always going to be something that you can learn from even if it is not what you want to happen, it is what God needs to happen. I am glad I was able to take away what I did in that situation because it has made me a better person today.”