How to Survive Your Murder

by Danielle Valentine

If you watched enough horrible things happen on-screen, you could figure out how to avoid them in real life.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt

But this was real life. No matter how well you know the rules, no matter how smart you think you are, you’re never prepared for your life to turn into a horror movie.

Maybe the lesson here is that it doesn’t matter how many times you rewind, there’s always something you’re going to regret.

“I guess that’s the problem with those horror movies you’re always watching. They make you think everyone’s really simple. You know, the pretty girl, the bad boy, the geeky sidekick. But real people are never just one thing. Life’s a lot more complicated than that.”