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Death is never an easy thing to handle. Especially the death of a child. Recently a young man I knew was killed. This happened sometime last week. His body was found in an abandoned building Sunday night. He was only sixteen years old.

To his family there is just not words to express my deepest condolences. I would not even want to try to imagine the pain you must feel.

So many times I have taken for granted my own life. Not caring if I died. Not living. The changes I have been so working on the past few months has giving me a new perspective of my own life. I have learned to appreciate it.

This sixteen year old hadn't even started to live life. Now he won't ever have the chance. While it's easy to blame the gunman who shot him its harder to accept our own responsibility for it. We have bought into a system that is designed to kill us.

We have allowed a system of possession to run our lives. A long time ago we traded human value for a possession. To own something but here is the real sad part. You never actually own it. You only are leasing it.

Land will be here after you go and someone else will lease it. Don't pay the taxes on your property and the county will auction it off. Cloths you wear will either rip and tear and become rags or trash or they could end up as hand me downs again possession goes to someone else.

We kill each other for a worthless piece of paper that you can't even eat. We raise our children to buy into this world of corruption. How many more must pay the price for our ignorance? When will we evolve from this barbaric state of man?

It is Thanksgiving time here in America. A day we take to be thankful for what we have. However we don't think of the price paid for that. The land we stole. The people we sold. The slaves we owned. The bombs we dropped. We don't think about the countless lives that were unnecessarily killed for that which we think we have. We are fleas fighting over who owns the dog.

This holiday will never be the same for this poor family. Such a tragic loss of life. I ask the highers to give them comfort and peace. Wrap the family in love and absorb their pain. May we one day grow up and stop all this childish behavior so no more family's will have to suffer the same fate.