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You Have Touched So Many HeartsAug 30 '03 Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line This is about the loss of my friend Shelli.
As a clairvoyant, I can always say that fate is something that we cannot avoid. I see it all the time, both in my visions and in the world around me. I always tell my fiance Zach and my best friend Denise that fate is what brings us into each others' lives and it is what shapes who we are. Fate can make your life a heaven or a hell, and how you get through the trials that fate throws you is how you live. It was fate that brought Shelli into my life. We met each other when we were in the first grade. She had pretty blond hair and she always wore overalls. She was adorable and sweet...ala Buffy on "Family Affair". Even after I switched to a different elementary school in the third grade I never forgot Shelli. How could I? It was her vulnerability that made me a kind and generous person. After I switched schools Shelli and I didn't see each other for four years. Then, I entered junior high. I soon discovered that not only was Shelli at my school she was also in my gym class. Suddenly, I got back a friend that I thought was lost forever. Soon, Denise also became friends with Shelli. I thought it was wonderful that my best friend and my oldest friend became friends with each other. I still think so. When we entered high school, Denise joined Colorguard. Through that we met Tara and Sara, who are best friends. They are both very sweet and fun-loving, and Shelli also became friends with them quite quicklly. But Shelli was mostly concerned with her grades, so she did not go much for anything extra during high school. If she wasn't studying she was working at her part-time job. She was always on the Honor Roll, and was always helping me on my math. Shelli had a lot of friends. She was very loyal and helpful to us all. She always stuck by us and never let any of us go through anything alone. Shelli was always there if you needed a shoulder to cry on. When I was raped during my sophomore year of high school, she was there to listen as I screamed and yelled and ranted and raved my anger at my attacker and at the world in general. And it was not until our senior year that I found out exactly how Shelli felt about what happend to me. Our friend Angie told me that Shelli was angered by what had happend to me and couldn't understand why someone who would never do anything to hurt anyone had been the victim of such a vicious attack. Shelli and Denise worked at the same restauraunt, named Bishops Buffet. Both began working there during their junior year of high school. Shelli was a friendly person, so working as a server was perfect for her. She worked many hours, but still managed to find time to study and have fun. She never put work before any of us. If I had known that our junior year would be our last together, I would have spent more time with Shelli. Why do we waste so many precious moments in our lives? At the end of our junior year, Shelli had enough credits to graduate at the end of the first semester of our senior year of high school. Her best friend Chandel also had enough credits to graduate early. Both planned on starting college right away, with Shelli majoring in Accounting and Chandel majoring in Fashion Design. I believe that if fate had been different they would now own a design business together. Summer vacation before our senior year was exciting and a little overwelming as we all planned for our future. But as August came I began to have some very uneasy feelings that I just couldn't put my finger on. I also started having the same dream (vision) over and over about a car flipped over on its top. I now believe that I knew who it was in the car, but my heart wouldn't let me admit to my mind what I knew. If it had, I doubt I would be here writing this now. On August 27, 1994 my visions of a flipped car stopped as fate dealt its hand. That night at around 10 PM Shelli, along with Chandel, Tara, And Sara, were out having fun on the last weekend before we began our senior year of high school. As Shelli drove along a rain slicked highway she lost control of her car. It went into a hydroplane. As it did so, her front bumper hit a utility pole, flipping her car on its top and sending it skidding into a sign. Shelli had her window open, and was thrown part of the way out of the car. She suffered massive head and facial injuries, a broken neck, and other internal injuries. She was killed instantly. Tara, Sara, and Chandel were not seriously injured. Denise found out what happened when she went into work the next day. She has told me many times that she dreaded having to tell me because she knew how I was going to react. But in retrospect I probably already knew, but as I have said I ignored my visions. Have you ever been right about something but would give your eyes to be wrong? Thats how my visions make me feel, and in this case it was worse...because I couldn't change the fate of a dear friend. Denise told me the news in the only way she knew how..."Did you hear what happend?" "No" "Shelli was killed in a car accident last night." And my reaction?...tears and screaming; "For the love of God...no!! This can't be real!" But it was...and all Denise and I could do was hug each other and cry. It has been nine years now, and sometimes I still can't believe that Shelli is gone. And that is ok. I will always love Shelli, and it is ok to miss her. Sometimes when I go to visit my home state I go to visit Shelli. On her tombstone, the epitaph reads; "You Have Touched So Many Hearts". She has forever touched mine.  |
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