Making Best of the Bad

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Ben Langford

Making Best of the Bad

What is the meaning of life? That is a question that I ask myself and I’m sure you do as well. Sometimes I just sit there on my own, when things aren’t going to great and have a wonder. I always come up with the same answer usually. ‘Dunno’. I asked this question a lot to myself when my parents were splitting up. As I didn’t know what the point of me being here was. But, now I have come through that rollercoaster of emotions. I think I have come out a bigger and better person.

I look back at my life, when I was in my early childhood around seven or eight. They were some fabulous times, the hot scorching sunny days, the sky as blue as the rippled ocean. I remember feeling top of the world, playing footy with mates from sunrise to sunset. Life really couldn’t have felt better. And why couldn’t it? Because there was nothing wrong. As long as nothing is wrong, you will feel nothing but pure genuine joy.

But as soon as something does go wrong, its hits you harder than anything, like being knocked down by a five tonne lorry. It feels like you will never get up again, and that everyone else’s life is better. You feel so low, that you do not know what to do with yourself and you cannot trust anyone. This is what happened to me. That feeling is indescribable. All I can say is that it hurts.

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Although I did get knocked down, I did get back up and fight back. It was a long haul to say the least. But right now I can say that things that pretty much are back to their best. I mean can you give me one reason why it’s good to mope around and feeling sorry for yourself?  No. I didn’t think you could. That’s why you have to try and claw back what you once had. When your family is the most important thing to you, to see that gradually fall apart is the worst feeling of all. ...

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