The Need To Move On

(Photo: Brooke Harrison with her mother)

(CNN)They both fidget while they talk, like any teenager would when being questioned in front of multiple cameras. One jokes about her imperfect manicure.

“Prom is on my birthday,” Lauren Hogg says. “I think it’s going to be great.

But then, when asked to recount what should be the hardest thing for them to talk about, their fidgeting stops.

“I was in the 1200 building, which is where the shooting happened,” Brooke Harrison says. “And Alaina, Alyssa and Alex all died in my classroom and eight people total were shot in my classroom. Everyone that was around me where I decided to try to hide was either shot or killed.” (CNN)

The shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, FL took place February 14, 2018.

This story is an extreme example of “THE NEED TO MOVE ON!”

We all have various life experiences that require us to also move on.

The only way I know how to do that is to MAKE TODAY COUNT.

It’s all we have!

If not today, when?