One Thing A Person Should Never Take For Granted
             Life is like a hourglass, with little specks of sand descending one by one and then perishing forever. People tend to believe that they have control over their "hourglass." They never tend to see that at any moment that glass can shatter ;then life will slip through our very hands, and we will not be able to grasp the specks of sand. Life is only very short, and one should never take it for granted because what happens if it ends today? Tomorrow? Or even next week? Life is only given to somebody once, how we use it or waste our time is entirely up to us.
             One does not seem to notice the short period of time we life on earth, until someone they cared for passes away. At that moment, they start to realize that this life is very short and that they could have been the person to pass away. Just a couple of years ago, a man that I loved very much passed away. He acted as my grandfather because I had never had one, and I loved the fact that he was what I always wanted as a grandpa. Once in mid-October near my birthday he had promised to take me and his wife, grandma, on a picnic that he had planned for years. The days started to roll by, and then the day before the picnic, my birthday, came. I went to stay with him so we could head out "at the first sight of angels" he used to call it, meaning when morning was starting to come. I remember that it was a harsh, rainy day and I was afraid that we weren't going to be able to go on the picnic I had dreamed of going to since grandpa told me about it, but instead the worst thing possible happened. I arrived at grandpa's house and soon realized that for once it was dark and gloomy and very cold. I crawled in from the puppy and saw grandma crying. I went to her and asked her what was wrong, but instead she didn't answer and just hugged me as if she was trying to make some kind of pain disappear. I started to ...