Life Unexpected

The simplest gestures, words, or actions can touch a person’s life forever. Just a few short moments, or even days can change your whole perspective on life. For me, all it took was a boy and a summer. A summer, that’s all it took, to change my life. My life was forever changed.

            I was just a girl, always lost in a book or a song. I was completely oblivious to the world. I tuned myself out to everyone and everything, too afraid of being hurt. And he was the boy that took a chance on me. He saw something in me that no one else did. He came alongside me, and taught me to take chances, taught me to trust again, and taught me to love. He was the best thing I never knew I needed. He had faith in me, when I didn’t even have faith in myself.

            I used to write. I would write anything; essays, novels, poems, and songs. I just stopped. I lost my faith in God, and I lost my faith in pretty much everything else. No one would tell me I was wrong, or sit me down and argue with me. No one knew what to do with me, so that’s exactly what they did. They did nothing. He told me I was wrong. He would sit me down and yell at me till I listened to him. Suddenly, I found myself smiling, I started to write again, and I found not only my faith in God again, but I also found my faith in myself.

            All he had to do was not give up on me that was all it took for me to feel like a new person. He stayed by me that entire summer. He made me laugh and he made me mad. He was just simply there. The simplest action touched my life deeply and made me an entirely new person. One summer, that was all it took to change everything I had ever known. One summer saved my life.

       The best things in life are unexpected 

- because there were no expectations.

Eli Khamarov

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