Mystery picture!

Guess what this is!

When my dad saw it on my camera, his guess was an exploding helicopter.

I took this picture a while ago. I had been playing with my dog outside, and suddenly he sprinted into the chicken wire of my mom's garden. As he got there, I noticed a the fluttering of a bird's wings in the chicken wire. I was too late to stop my dog as he jumped in and grabbed the bird in his mouth. I ran and untangled my dog; he was holding the bird in his mouth triumphantly, refusing to let go. After a while, I finally got the bird out of his mouth. I had thought that maybe there was a chance for it, but then I realized that what was in my dog's mouth was only the body of the bird, and the head was still in the chicken wire.

So I gathered both parts... and then took pictures. I was a little fascinated with how it looked... but that's not what I was going to write about today.

What I wanted to write about is how suddenly death can come. For that bird, it probably had no idea that it would die a few seconds after landing in the garden. It was living its normal life, ready to do other things in the near future, and then WHAM and it was dead. It can happen like that with us too... we make plans with our friends for next week, but sometimes death comes suddenly and without warning, and those plans never happen. It's a little sad... but I guess that's why it's important to live life as it comes... If you're happy in the present, then there will be no regrets for you or the people you leave behind.