My Traumatic Experience Analysis

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I truly had a bad experience when I was six years old that changed my life forever.Some assume that kids who have traumatic experiences are always messed up in some ways but, that isn't entirely true some turn out okay like, me and my brother.There is one thing you should know about Chloe she was the boss of the house and she had everyone wrapped around her little finger.It was the morning of December seventeenth when my eighteen month old sister Chloe Carin Keiser wandered into my brothers room next door which is to my room.I had heard a boom and come to find out and face that my sister was laying underneath a twenty-seven inch television.I quickly woke my brother and we had run to my parents room.They quickly woke and had pulled the tv off …show more content…

A few days later my mom had sent me and my brother back to school.There was a knock on the door and it turns out to be two detectives to collect my mother's statement as to what happened since they had gotten a report from others.My mother had told them that they weren't going to hear the last moments of her life but her life story from the time that she came into this world until the time she left it.By the time my mother had finished the two men were in tears then they left.Days later the same two men showed up with a check in hand for five hundred dollars to help pay for my sister's funeral from them and the police department where they worked.She was buried on December 24th.What I have learned from this experience is that you have to cherish what you have before it is gone and it's too

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