When my great grandpa passed away, I thought that I wouldn't be able to live anymore, but it came out that my life goes on. When I didn't get perfect scores on my final exams in elementary school, I felt like a loser who could never do anything correctly, but I graduated as the best student in my class. Robert Frost once said: "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." When I just had a fight with my dad and cried in my own room, I felt that no one cared about me, but two days later my dad and I was sitting in a restaurant having fun. "Oh, I was just being stupid." She answered lightheartedly with a brilliant smile as if nothing had happened. I asked her about what happened three years ago with curiosity because she seemed to forget about it.
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Look at her now: she became prettier, full of vitality and carefree. What she needed was a listener, not another didactic person.
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I didn't know how to comfort people, but I guess it was all right. Didn't I feel the same way when I had a fight with my parents? Although I didn't think suicide was a good way to solve the problem, I sat with her and tried to comfort her with platitudes. It was like the whole world turned on you out of sudden, and everything just went wrong. I couldn't see her face, but I could imagine how sad she must have felt. She told me the whole thing with her head down, shoulders shaking. She felt that her mom didn't understand her and didn't love her at all, so, she cut her wrist. Then, she told me everything: the stolen wallet, her mother's scold, and how desperate she felt. I was terrified to see a dark red scar lying across her wrist! It was new the blood crust was still red. "What happened?" I asked with a soft voice, "You can always talk to me if you want." She didn't look at me, remained silent for a while and showed me her left wrist. I turned to look at her and surprisingly found her sitting with her head down, almost lifeless. I greeted her as usual but didn't get an answer. She looked so pale and gloomy when she sat down next to me on the bus. Even though I hadn't seen her for almost three years, even though I was a very forgetful person and we were not close at all, I still recognized her at the first sight because of what she told me last time we saw each other. When my friend Rebecca told me that she would introduce a friend to me, I never thought that it would be her. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." Please write the quotation at the beginning of your essay. Option 4 - Using a favorite quotation from an essay or book you have read in the last three years as a starting point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world.