[ WP ] You have developed and ability to see how people will die when you look at them . Your entire life you avoided pictures of yourself , but today you forgot , and , brushing your teeth in the morning , looked in the mirror ...

I ’ m not like other people. I know how everyone will die. All I need to do is look at their face and it comes to me like a vivid memory. The boy who sits next to me in class will live to be 102 and then die of natural causes. The bus driver will see a woman getting mugged and try to be a hero, only to get shot between the eyes. My neighbor ’ s stupid dog will run into the street and be hit by an oncoming vehicle while chasing after a stick that he was playing with. I avoid pictures and videos of myself, and have never looked in a mirror since this condition started effecting me when I was small. Last weekend, I was brushing my teeth after sleeping over a friends house and saw it. I looked in the mirror. All I could see was me walking across the street with my head down and being run over. Now I have the choice every time I walk somewhere. I can look at reflections of myself in cars so I don ’ t get hit, but watch myself die a hundred times. Or, I can keep my head down so I don ’ t have to watch myself die, but actually die. Obviously, I ’ ve been keeping my head up and watching myself die, since I ’ m writing this. I ’ m actually writing this while walking down the sidewalk. You see, I was on my way to class when I remembered my professor had told us to write an autobi -- 
 
 
 “ It seems like he dropped his pen into the street, and when he put his head down to look for it, a speeding car turned the corner and ran him over, it sure is tragic. ” said the policeman to the paramedic. 

