I Believe

I believe in a second chance. “Everyone makes mistakes, everyone has those days.” Lyrics from Miley Cyrus’s song “Nobody’s perfect.” Some mistakes you can fix, and some you cannot. Some are your fault, and some aren’t. In my book, “Before I Die,” she didn’t make a typical mistake, an action of judgment that was wrong; she was just born that way, with cancer and more specifically, leukemia. This might not seem like a mistake exactly, but she can’t fix it, and it wasn’t her fault, to me that’s a mistake. Life is never fair and everyone knows that they can’t always have their way and get what they want. People living with leukemia probably wonder as their going for their weekly or daily treatments, “why me?” “What did I do to deserve this torture?”

I believe in a second chance. I think that everyone deserves another chance no matter how bad you messed up or didn’t mess up. In Tessa’s situation, she didn’t mess up but her body wasn’t capable of fighting off the cancer cells. As a result she got leukemia. I think that she deserves a second chance as well as everyone else. To live life over again where she doesn’t have cancer or anything that affects her life in any way. I think everyone should live like this. No one should die in that way; I also believe that everyone should live life to the fullest and cherish every moment. Tessa made a list of 10 things she wanted to do before she died and she accomplished every one of them. She made sure that she took advantage of every second, even though her sickness sometimes got the better of her.

I believe in a second chance. I think that everyone should have another try at things. If you bomb a test, I think that everyone should be able to take it over again and try to do over again with a better result. No one should be stuck with his or her mistake; we should just try again. On of the things that Tessa wanted to do before her death was break the law. So, she shoplifted from a store and got caught. She tried to get out of her mistake by saying that she was sick but they didn’t care, she broke the law, and she had to suffer the consequences. Her dad gave her a second chance and forgave her, not because she was sick but because he knew that she was sorry and knew that she made a mistake.

I believe in second chances. I think that everyone should get another chance at life. Those who are living or died of cancer and those who were born without arms and legs and people who were born mentally retarded and even people who committed crimes! I believe that everyone should be able to press the red reset button on their lives and just have another chance to be what the “normal” is and be happy about their appearances and whom they are inside. Everyone should be given a fair shot at life and I don’t think that everyone is.

I believe that everyone should be happy no matter what his or her situation is. Whether they get everything they want or they don’t. Just be happy to be alive and live life to the fullest. Of course many people might find that line cheesy, and I agree. It’s a very common line that could get irritating, but I think that it sums up the book very well. Before, Tessa didn’t do anything when she first found out that she had cancer. All she did was lie down on her bed and mope around the house feeling sorry for herself. Then she realized that she might have wasted some of her life grumbling about her sickness when she could be “living life to the fullest.”