I remember the first time of my life when I went to a beach with my family. I was …show more content…
We traveled from Alexandria, Egypt to Marsa Matrouh. We got there at 10 am and the first thing we did was to go to the beach. When we got there, the view of the beach was breath-taking, it was absolutely magnificent. I felt the sea 's call and got hypnotized by it just like how the old sailors from the stories got hypnotized by the mermaids …show more content…
I started swimming deeper and deeper while my family had no idea where on earth I was, they started disappearing from my eyesight and the only sound I could hear was the sound of waves. I got really scared and my legs could not even touch the ground. At this point, I did not know what was going on, what should I do? Should I just give up and let myself sink and die since I don’t know how to swim and my family cannot even see me. I tried to keep myself calm and try to float on the surface of the water, but I felt like something is pulling me toward the deep side of the sea. All the excitement that I felt at the beginning turned into a dreadful feeling. My whole body was shaking and all I heard was the beat of my heart. At this time, when I was on the brink of death, the only thing that I thought about was what would my mother and my father feel if I