so what i will talk to you about today is a day i will never forget. this happened over 10 years ago. it was just like any other day, my parents sitting in living room and me in my room playing game. for absolutely no reason i decide to pause the game and go into living room and open the front door to look out. and i am lucky i did. i lived in an very secluded area that was surround by woods on 3 sides, the left, right, and behind house. with the front side looking into the road. i open the door and look right and slitely behind, and i see some smoke. i ask my mom to come look and as soon as she saw it i knew we were in trouble. i could not yet see the fire but when i saw her reaction i knew it was big. me and my parents rush inside house and mom calls fire dept. and we all took what was important to us from the house to put into the car trunk. while we are doing this a friend of mine from school, jacob, was driving by and i guess saw the smoke and stopped at our house and without asking just started grabbing empty boxes from the back of his truck and helped us get stuff. by the time we were done packing up the fire made sure we knew of its precense. being surrounded by fire on 3 sides is a site to see but what truly stuck with me was the smell. the firemen were doing the best they could and i thank them for it, but we are too small of a place to have enough people to stop this thing fast enough. my family, and jacob, drive away knowing what was going to happen. my family drives to my aunts house and we spend the rest of the day there. my mom calls fire dept at night and they say its still burning, but it should stop by the end of the night. morning comes and we drive back home hoping the house would still be there, but it was all gone. the only place i had known my whole life gone. not just the home, but the entire area around it all gone. somewhat nearby is where my grandparents lived, they had died years before and left house to my dad but we never sold the house or anything, and we moved in there. we are lucky to have this though and i am just happy that my parents were still with me. when i first went back to school i could not help but offer everything i had on me to jacob. it was only like 10 dollars but he helped us so much i had to do it, but he would not take it knowing we could really use it. from the day he helped us on i always had a great respect for him, he was always my friend but not someone you really expect to do this. i have not seen him since high school graduation but i will usually think about him at least once a week and i hope he is living a great life. i do not think he lives close by anymore so i probably will not get to see him again. i kind of feel like i owe him something and will never get to repay a debt, but anyways that is not really important. by the way i guess i left out a pretty big part of the story. after a few days we learned the cause of the fire was arson. the person who lived the closest to us set the woods on fire and left. i will never know why he did it. i know i shouldnt think this way but i will sometimes wonder if he did it because of us. every once in a while i will go by my old home and look around and it is still bad. a once beautiful area looks like a wasteland. but things happen i guess. we all moved on, kept living our lives in our new home. by the way i do not want you to feel sorry for me. yes i lost my home and many material items over sinceless crime, but i did not lose my family and that is all that matters.
well there you have it for today. other things already on my list for upcoming blogs
- album review for anthony
- stories about my most embarassing moments
- your suggestions
