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one. I was in shock I was out of my mind "how do I know if I was thinking or talking out loud" I thought to myself.

"You said nothing" came the voice.

I stood up and backed away I was on the verge of panic I wanted to run but I didn't, I couldn't I just had to know "how'd you do that?" I asked him again.

"It's not a how it's a why" came the reply.

"What?" I puzzled. "Why?".

"Everything happens for a reason" he said.

"Not everything" I snapped.

"Oh yes everything, even this death" he explained. I jumped ten feet inside but on the outside I was like a statue, "what did he mean by that?" I thought and then as before he answered my thoughts "all things have reason, life is a lesson and so is death you must find the reason to benefit from the lessons life and death are trying to teach you"

I was now very freaked out and I started to think that the car hit me and that I was dead but his voice assured me "No my child you are not the one that is dead you are very much alive"

"OK that's enough your scarring me stop" I pleaded but he went on "but it seems that you take your life for granted, it seems that you are careless in how you manage your gifts" now he was standing and making his way over to where I was sitting so I quickly stood up and was about to run but he was on me, so quickly and firmly that I couldn't believe that this skeleton of a man was real, my mind raced and so did my heart his grip on my arm was like steel.

"THERE!" he almost screamed "that's it do you feel it?"

"Feel what? Oh God let go of me" I heard myself yell. "LIFE! Do you feel it?" he asked me again.

I wanted to run I was so afraid and then I noticed it the feeling that rushed through my body "I am alive!" I screamed as I started to cry then he let me go.

"Never forget that feeling never take it for granted" he said "your life is a gift and you are on a bad road that ends much too soon the path that has been laid out for you is a long one so don't forget that just because you can't see the end, that you don't understand it or you fear it that you know or even have a right to know when and where it ends, as I have said everything happens for a reason and everything is a lesson that you may not fully understand at the time but your soul does".

I cried even harder then asked "But what does death teach me? That life is pointless? That I'm only here now to leave later?"

Again he was moving much quicker than expected but this time I didn't jump, he sat down beside me looked in my eyes and said "Death teaches

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