Descriptive Essay About Sadness - 974 Words

Sadness. Some people will say they learned how to drive this summer, or they learned how to waterski. But I learned what sadness is. My mum and I spent two weeks with my grandfather and grandmother this summer. I knew my grandfather’s health was failing. I knew he wasn’t doing well. But I had absolutely no conception of how bad it was. He couldn’t take ten steps without yelping in pain. He couldn’t do much of anything by himself. Those two weeks were spent helping my grandparents any way I possibly could, carrying my grandfather s walker places, and playing endless games of scrabble with him. My grandfather is the best scrabble player I have ever met. Every time I had visited him, we had played at least once a day and he would beat me†¦show more content†¦My eyes were clouded over and I just kept hearing the words that the principal had said over and over again. He had passed away. I didn’t even know him well, but the idea that he could just be gone terrified me. Now it was happening to my grandfather. â€Å"How can someone just be gone?† I pleaded with my mum, but probably more with God than her. â€Å"How can someone be here one day, and then gone the next?’ Tears began to fill my eyes and cloud my vision. â€Å"How is it that someone dies when their body fails them? How is it that one day Grandad will be gone, and I won’t be able to talk to him anymore, or call him, or play scrabble with him? It’s just not fair!† I collapsed into tears while my mum pulled over. We just sat there for a while, both hugging each other and crying our eyes out. There was so much sadness in me. It was like a black hole, swallowing me up from the inside. It was an intense form of grief that I had never felt before. I would cry and feel my whole body shaking, tears coming out of my eyes, but my soul also gasping inside of me, trying to throw out that black hole, but instead getting consumed. My mum’s face streamed with tears. â€Å"I feel the same way,† she whispered before falling into heart wrenching sobs, the same sobs that had been haunting me for months, as she had been crying over her dad’sShow MoreRelatedThe Miss Dennis School Of Writing, By Alice Steinbach, And No Wonder They Call Me A Bitch858 Words   |  4 PagesIn the essays The Miss Dennis School of Writing, by Alice Steinbach, and No Wonder They Call me a Bitch, by Ann Hodgman, both authors use description to get across the points they wish to make. The authors’ purpose for both of these essays are to catch the reader’s attention as well as to provide the readers with life lessons through descriptive writing. 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