At age 18 someone still has their entire life before them, don't they?
They've only been living for
986 weeks
6,905 days
165,720 hours
9,943,200 minutes
| 596,592,000 seconds
They still have a chance... Don't they?
A chance to become someone, have a career, meet the love of their life, change the world. But for some, 986 weeks is all the freedom they get.
Because at week 987 they're sentenced to prison. Because they used their freedom to have a little too much fun, got behind the wheel, and killed a man. And now, for the next 15-20 years, this young little 18 year old will be haunted by their choices, and it hurts me to know that someone apart of my family could have gone so astray. Someone who I looked up to when I was young now is locked away.
I haven't seen her in 10 years though. Why should I care? I see her facebook posts, I see her snapchat stories. She does stupid things. I should've seen this coming. Her mother has been to jail. But that was on possession of paraphernalia and theft of cosmetics and having a gun in a state that she shouldn't. Not killing a man and fleeing the scene.
I stand in awe that someone I love is going to spend her prime years behind bars rotting away, because she made a stupid decision. I'm not saying she should be exempt from the consequences of her decisions, I am just stating the feelings I have right now. Someone who is just a year older than me messed up so badly. It scares me to think about how much our lives change after one simple act... For good or for bad.
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