Knowlton My friend Jervais was fading away. He was a boy in my science class who had had a brain tumor removed. No one else really paid much attention to him, or seemed to care, but I always wondered what he felt like and what he’d been through.I was going through a stage of deep depression. I was having a lot of family problems and feelings of very low self-esteem. I just hated myself—I have no idea why. I would joke about death to my friends, and a few times I would even talk about trying to kill myself. All I wanted to do was to go somewhere where I would feel no pain and no sadness.One day I noticed that Jervais hadn’t been coming to school lately. About two days later, my adviser, Mrs. Baar, announced that Jervais had developed another brain tumor. I was so shocked that I started to cry. I felt as though I had a connection with Jervais. I spent the rest of the day thinking about how devastating it would be to know that at any hour, minute or even second you were going to die.
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