Time Will Tell

Prologue

As I look at the disk on my parent's desk, my eyes grow wide in curiosity. I read the print, True love, and slide it into the DVD player. My mother had told me not to watch it, but that only made me want to watch it more. I was born a rebel.

It begins with two people laughing with each other by a tree. I recognize them to be my mother and father. They laugh and I smile at how playful they were.

My father had died many years ago while in combat. My mother had given me a speech about death, but I was only six. I didn't know what she meant by it. Now I know it all too much.

I keep watching the video and see how happy they were together. What I would give to have what they have.. a life full of freedom and love and curiosity. Why, in our generation, did we have to be cursed with the painful cuffs that imprison us; the very things that make all of our decisions for us. Some people think it's a gift that we don't have to make hard choices, but choices are a part of life.

The video shows slides of my parents and us, and me as a baby. I've never seen these pictures. I see family members that my mother has never spoken of.

What other things do I not know? What about my life is true, and what is a lie?

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Please tell me if it's bad ×~× Or if I should even continue?

-Mikaila