Be Thankful

Life as we Knew it

Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer

It was already August and Miranda and her family started to worry about the food, it was almost over.  Miranda had a fight with her mom and almost leave home. Jonny gets back from his camp with dad and decided to chop wood for winter and he even gives them some food. One day, Miranda's mom fell down and hurt her ankle. People from the hospital didn't wanted to help her but Matt had a friend, Peter, who was a doctor. Peter told them her ankle was sprained and that she couldn't put weight on it for a couple of weeks. It was starting to snow and they needed to cover all the house to keep heat inside because there was no heating. They didn't knew what were they supposed to do and just waited for the best.

Miranda ate a whole bag of chocolates because she and her mom fighter and after they talked. Miranda's mom told her, "If we don't look towards the future, we have nothing to live for and I wouldn't have that." Miranda's mom is saying the truth. Everything we do needs to be for the future, people always need to be thinking before they act and look towards the future. When people make something, they don't think in the consequences the action will have, they only focus on the present but things don't need to be like that. We must change.

After the fight Miranda had with her mom, she started thinking about the death of her friend, Megan. Megan's mother had suicide for her daughter's death and Miranda realized she was never going to do that to her mom. "I've live. We'll live. I will never make Mom face what Mrs. Wayne faced. My existence is the only gift to give her (…)" I think that in this terrible crisis, the only gift she can actually give her is her existence. It is sad, many people don't even have mothers and others just think is insignificant problems such as homework. We need to appreciate the things we have and benefit from them. 

Many people may be facing worse problems than yours. Miranda and her family needed to deal from the cold form winter while others may just be watching TV. We always need to be thankful for the lives we have and try to enjoy them as much as we can. We always need to try to help others as much as possible, like Peter. He was the only one who helped Miranda's mom and everyone was very thankful with him. People must try to be better everyday and always be thankful for what they have.