The Tragedy That Almost Was
Thursday, March 03, 2011
10:21 AM
When thinking of what I was going to write about for my personal narrative this morning I decided that instead of talking about an event that improved my life I would rather talk about something that I did that helped the life of someone else. This story is a story that still sometimes gets me shaken as to what would have happened had I not acted fast enough but on the other hand when I think of what may have gone wrong I always just reassure my self that it all turned out ok.
The story takes place on a nice Summer day in my back yard. I look out the window and see that my neighbors are having a family party. I make a small walk over to their house to check out what is going on. When I get there I see that my neighbors grandchild who is cutter every time I see him is just beginning to walk and is running all over the place. I talk to the neighbors and they tell me all of his stories about his very first steps. As I go back into my yard I see my Dad with the Frisbee and he says ''you wanna play some catch'' Being it was such a nice day and I had nothing else to do I started to play catch. After a while my Dad decides to throw one over my head to see if I can catch it. Not looking where I was going I ran full speed ahead at the Frisbee. As I briefly look down I notice that the neighbors baby is slowly walking towards me. I being 12 years old and him having taken his first steps just weeks ago I had to think fast. Just as I am about to ram into him I stop dead in my tracks about as fast as I ever have before. I myself fell over and got a few scares but as I looked back I saw that the baby was alright.
Every once and a while I think about that day. I wonder what the baby has done since then and I wonder what awful things could have happened had I not stopped on a dime as good as the road runner from the road runner commercials. The important thing is to not think about what could have happened but that as I said before to just tell myself that everything was alright and when I see the child running through my neighbors yard every once and a while I can again assure myself that no harm has been done and everything is going to be ok.
Great Job, your narrative was quite impressive.
ReplyDeleteIt was good but I am curious to why did you start with talking about the narrative. It didn't really play along.
ReplyDeleteI will have to agree with Austin's comment. It sticks out as though it was a sore thumb.
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