2nd Chances and 2nd Glances

I was watching an episode of Grey's Anatomy and in the few minutes the show aired. They were in the middle of a heart transplant surgery when the waiting patient coded and died. I had an emotional breakdown because it hit home for me that while GOD gave me a second chance, my niece's life is over. I cried and I wept at the thought of all of it. I haven't done much with my life, but I am trying to to use this second chance to my advantage. I hope to have Shannon's book completed by the end of the year, it's so hard to write about her and not have these emotional pangs of grief for her. She did more in her short 20 years than I have ever done in the 42 years I have been alive. I really admire that about her. I look back at my life through a second glance and realize that as long as GOD let's me, I will tell her story the best way that I know how. with love and honesty. FAMU is dedicating their season to Shannon and I really wish I could be there. I miss her so much, because I lost so many years with her, but I know she was a blessed child, she was one of GOD's own.