This chapter of my life is called apathy.I grew up an indifferent girl, who rarely values the littlest beautiful things I encountered each day: the rain, the sky and the flowers. As a little girl, I had never known anyone who dislike flowers as much as I did. Worse, I would walk away when my mom showed me her garden. Worst, I would thought the same thing when anybody gave me flowers:
"Flowers are ridiculous, they'll die anyway."
One day, I was assigned an analysis essay in my English class on a short story, "The Man I Killed" from the book The Things They Carried. Curt Lemon, one of the brave soldiers was killed during the Vietnam War. His death brought a lifetime guilt for a fellow soldier, for he could have done better to save Lemon. However, this soldier then realized that Lemon had lived a good life and that his beautiful life is a life worth dying. This deep short story touches my heart every time I read it. It has taught me an incredible life lesson that I still cling on until today: Do not think about the gruesomeness of death, but the beauty of life.