by Lanaya

Sometimes when you’re in the moment of a heated argument or dispute, you don’t really think about what you’re saying or how the other person is feeling while you’re saying how you feel. Recently, in Bowie, Maryland at Bowie State University, a young lady was stabbed and killed by her fellow roommate. According to myfoxdc.com, the dispute was over the volume of the victim’s music. Supposedly her roommate came into the room and turned her music off and left, but the victim turned the music back on, not knowing that cutting it back on would take her life. The girl came back to the room and started fighting the victim, and grabbed a pair of scissors and stabbed her in the neck. Forty-Five minutes later the life of the victim had been gone.

I believe this incident is an example of how some people can get caught up in their emotions. They don’t think about the consequences that are going to come afterwards.  I admit sometimes I do the same thing, after everything is over with, I regret some of the things I may have said or did. I think this also shows people to “think before you act.” This story inspires me to think before I act because the things that I could be saying or doing can hurt someone else in ways I wouldn’t know. Also, this demonstrates being the boss of me, I am choosing to think about the other person’s feelings and also my own.