Especially someone with a wonderful life just around the corner, the next chapter waiting to be written, filled with love poems and adventure.
Life is so fragile, a beautiful flower in a windstorm.
We are constantly told to live it to its fullest, to just do it. The death of Shannon Smith hit hard. True, he was more in the spotlight as a University of Hawaii football player. One lesson, I guess, is that we should realize that young people especially are not immune to the dangers that lurk inside and out. We should appreciate the young as fully as the old, take the time to stop and see that, hey, this is a good kid I have helped raise or know.