How Death Changed My Life

When I was about 4-5 I learned what death was, and it terrified me. Death has scared me even though I am many years away from it I would think about death and it would terrify me. Luckily a lot of times in movies when people died I knew it was fake, so it did not scare me as much, it was when I thought about my family dying and dying myself. This fear caused me to decide to live forever. I came up with all sorts of crazy ideas. Even if they would never work, I kept thinking about them and it consumed me. It kept me from living my own life. That lasted up until I was in my 2nd year of homeschooling. I was in 5th grade, and I was given the choice of picking a book from a selection of grade level books. I saw Tuck Everlasting and I decided to check it out. At first when I saw it, it was talking about death and I was pulled in only for the hope that I would get a genius idea for immortality. At first I was reading Tuck Everlasting for the sake of reading it. But not long after starting, I became intrigued by the book. I was confused when they would not rejoice in living forever. However, as Tuck started to explain life and death, I began to agree with him. He explained that living life to the max, in a good way, was better than being stuck running out of things
I need to live life to the max. This way, when I pass on, I will not have wasted my life feel so sad and depressed. I need to set my life goals as early on as possible, so I can achieve my goals. Tuck Everlasting has allowed to almost completely figure myself out. In doing that, I have now realized that I will always be on the ready to go out of my way to help others when they need it. Also, Tuck Everlasting was such an interesting book that it had sparked my love of reading. I pick all sorts of interesting and rich books now, and I read them for their stories: the suspense, the drama, the romance, and everything else that makes a good