Journal Entry Week 4

This weekend a number of events happened that caused it to be one of the strangest in a long time. To start off the weekend, Friday night, our friend's dad passed away after being sick in the hospital for a few months now. That was very difficult for me and my other friends. Two of my other friends and I had a conversation after school and we realized that we must appreciate what is truly important in our lives because everything could change in a minute. If that wasn't enough of a reality check, also on Friday evening, one of my old friends who is my age was shot twice and is now paralyzed from the waist down. This was the second shooting of people our age that has occurred in the last couple months. Lately it seems that things are getting worse and worse and bad news won't stop coming. Hopefully things around Baton Rouge and the community will improve soon.