This was honestly the scariest day of my life. My brother Xavier and I are 13 years apart. I know it’s a big age difference, it was a whole new beginning for my mother and me. It had just been us two for a very long time.…
I woke up with my brother and some other people staring at me; I was dazed and confused. I started screaming at everyone. I screamed, “am i going to die?” to Shelby. When I saw my brother walking away I yelled, “James I love you, tell mom and dad I love them too!”…
Later my dad entered my room, and I remember screaming and crying at the same time, telling him that he shouldn’t have done that. He rationalized it in way that it made me think what had just happened was normal. Since then I have never heard such a terrifying, blood curdling scream come from so many people at once. That was the time that I had feared dying for the first time in my…
It was 11:00 pm. and I woke up to the sound of coughing coming from my brothers room and it wasn’t just coughing it was non stop coughing. I was scared. I ran into my brothers room and I saw him choking on air he couldn’t breath.…
As a military child, I left the United States with my family at the age of five and spent eight years living overseas at duty stations in Japan, Germany, and Italy. We traveled extensively during vacations to over 20 different countries. As a result, I claim proficiency in ordering french fries and apple juice in several different languages. Although moving has brought me some misfortune, and many people would say that living overseas qualifies as adversity, I never felt it was such.…
The door slams. Angry voices pervade throughout the house. Fear, fear of what was to happen next lingered in my mind. It became a part of my daily routine. At a very young age I realised that life was not all sunshine and rainbows.…
Before this night, I had no real experience with shocking events. It was a typical night in the household of a five-year-old. My Dad was in the family room soaking up all his favorite sports shows, my Mom was in her room reading a book, and my sister Elise, was playing in the living room with my fuzzy tan stuffed bunny. But what I didn't know is, that I was going to the Emergency Room (E.R.) later that night. I walked down the stairs of our newly built home, trying to escape the boredom of my room.…
I have always loved riding in cars. After a long day in first grade, I used to fall asleep to the engine purring in my mother's Honda Odyssey, even though it was only a 5-minute drive home. As I grew, and graduated into the shotgun seat, it became natural and enjoyable to look out the window. Seeing my world passing by through that smudged glass, I would daydream what I could do with it.…
My eyes opened to the sight of my brother shaking violently, blood oozing out of his mouth. One of the paramedics eventually explained to me that my brother had suffered a seizure,…
We had just opened a store and I began going to school. We were somewhat stable, or at least I thought. One day, I saw my parents fighting and all three of us kids went inside to begin packing our stuff already knowing what would happen. But this time it was different. We had completely run out of food, and I hadn't seen my older brother go to work in two weeks.…
Have you ever had something minor happen and multiple major things come out of it? I had an experience like that where I learned something interesting. It was an average Thursday, although it was a little hot for November, and it was recess time. I was running from my friend Connor when I decided to run under the slides, where a hornets nest happened to be right above.…
I had been dreaming about this day constantly for four years. All of my blood, sweat, and tears had gone into this one particular goal. On September 24, 2015, I had finally achieved my goal in successfully verbally committing to a division one college. Through motivation, determination, and hard work, I achieved my goal head on, even though many obstacles were thrown my path. My journey began in seventh grade.…
We arrived at our house around 6:00 in the morning. I had barely gotten any sleep during the 17 hour trip, but that didn’t matter. As soon as we stopped the car, I jumped out to get a better view. I was literally pushing my siblings and tripping over my own feet! My mom gave me one of those Don’t- do-it-again-but-you-won’t-get-in-trouble-this-time looks.…
I grab the handle of the bedroom door with my hands shaking and my heart pounding. As I pushed the door opened I saw my mother with my little baby sister wrapped in her arms and shaking furiously begging her to please wake up. As of that moment I realized something was wrong with my little baby sister. At that time, I was eleven years old. I have never lost a loved one before and death is a word I did not know existed.…
On September 14th I had been in my second week of school and so had my brother. At the time my brother was a freshman in high school and I was in 3rd grade. My brother had not been feeling good at school that day. So, my mom had taken him to the hospital to get x rays on his chest and they had seen a large…