Day 3

Name one thing in your life you hope you never have to see or encounter.

I have encountered the one thing in life I dreaded most, and I hope to never encounter it again. In October of last year I had a gun put to my head and was robbed of my camera equipment. Nothing puts life in perspective like looking down the barrel of a gun, but to be honest, even if the trigger had been pulled I would have died with no regrets. I have loved those around me, I have laughed, I have lived, and above all... I have loved God. I have no fear of death, but I have an immense fear of torture. So I suppose that is what I never want to encounter. I never want to encounter a person whose only goal is to cause me, or anyone else, pain. Part of the reason I have never watched a horror movie/slasher is because of how much torture terrifies me. It makes me want to puke.

Those boys that robbed me that day I'm sure had no intentions of that sort, they wanted something they could get money off of. They'll never know that after that day I had an anxiety attack almost every time I went to school because I hated Flint so much after that, or that I had to start taking sleeping pills, or that I had nightmares for months because of them. If anything more had happened, I would hate to think how I would be now. God brought me through that small incident though, so I'm sure he would have brought me through anything more.