One Month Expiration Date

  Hi, my name is Katy Bloom, well at least that is what I like to imagine my name would be in the future when I am all grown up and can finally change it, but for now, I am stuck with the most basic name in the book Katherine Baker. I am a 14-year-old girl on the verge of starting high school with some big aspirations. I can imagine myself in the near future becoming the youngest most successful entrepreneur in the business industry but for now, I am laying low and scoping out the competition. My first day of high school starts soon however I am not nervous, I have planned out everything I am going to achieve so I become the most successful woman in my generation. High School is just a small dot I need to connect to in order to complete the whole picture. Once I am done with high school, I plan on attending Harvard business school where I will graduate early and at the top of my class, you may be wondering where I will the money to go to such a prestigious school, well I have got that covered. Throughout high school, I will have a part-time job and during the summer break, I will work full time. Some of you may be thinking that even after all that I probably still will not have enough money and your right that is why I am going to apply for a student loan as well as a grant but if that is not enough, I will ask my parents to pitch in as well just. Once I have graduated from Harvard business school, I am packing my bags and moving to Singapore. You may be wondering why Singapore why not LA or New York City, well here is why Singapore the most business-friendly, so it is the best place to start my billion-dollar empire and Singapore has the most competitive economy in the world it is also the most politically stable, so I will not have to worry about corrupt leaders or boneheads running the place. As soon as I arrive in Singapore, I am going to apply for a job at one of the most exclusive companies known to man. I am not too worried about living arrangements and food because I am sure the company will provide for me once they take a glance at my amazing resume. After I have my impressed CEO and closed one of the biggest deals ever, I will probably be offered a promotion which I will take, slowly and gradually I will introduce my eventual billion-dollar empire ideas to clients of my current workplace and have them join me. This will take me a maximum of 2 years and as soon as I have enough investors I am quitting. From the money and investor's money I will then built up my business empire which should take 3 years tops, my name will be all around Singapore and soon all around the world. Everything will work out perfectly and I will be ready no matter what, well at least that is what I thought. At the beginning of the month, I was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma. Crazy isn’t it, one day I was a perfectly normal girl with dreams equivalent to reaching the stars and now I am being told that I have a 5 percent survival rate even if I choose aggressive chemo, my options are either stay in the hospital and be sick with a couple extra weeks to live or go enjoy whatever time I have left. I had the next 20 years of my life memorized step by step and now I have 6 weeks maybe less. I cannot become a world-famous businesswoman anymore or the most successful women in my generation, I do not even know if Ill be able to make it to attend the first day of high school. I have not lived yet, there is so much I still want to see and experience, I have never been to an amusement park or a concert, I have never snuck out or been to a party. All I have ever done is volunteer and do schoolwork so I could become successful when I am older but now nothing I did matters, all that matters is that I have a few weeks left to live and an entire 14 years to make up for. A few weeks is not enough to live my life, I am only 14 why did this have to happen to me. I cannot  die yet I just  figured out what courses I wanted to take in high school and what clubs and teams I was going to try out for, I didn’t even get to change my name to Katy Bloom but all this stuff does not matter because I wont make it.14 years of my life all wasted, everything changed within the span of a month, one month was all if took to ruin my life. Now I am just a sick girl in a hospital bed waiting for my parents to tell me whether or not I am going to be stuck here to die or if I am going to go home and then die in the comfort of my room. Nothing matters anymore, all I can do now is count my days and read some good books. I am sad but I can not stop what is going to happen to me, I cannot resist fate so why not just accept it instead of fighting inevitable odds. A few weeks is all I have to forget the next chapters of my life and I’m not going to waste whatever time I have left wondering what chemo will do to me. It only took a month to change the rest of my life. All my plans mean nothing anymore, my entire life's hopes and dreams have a one-month expiration date and now so do I.