I Am Invincible Narrative Essay

Growing up, I always considered myself and everyone around me invincible, like nothing bad ever happened to anyone, I was wrong. You see, when something bad happens your mind races with a variety of different emotions. You feel disbelief, panicked, and then you have to wait, which makes you overwhelmingly anxious. The first time I felt these emotions, was when I was sixteen, it was also the first time I realized that everyone around me that I loved wasn’t invincible. At first it didn’t seem real; I still felt everyone was invincible. The news I just heard felt fake, made up, maybe even a prank, I was in complete disbelief. It was a chilly December morning, I had just got done eating brunch with my mom when I got the call, the worst call of my life. I was confused because it was one of my friends girlfriend’s Leah, which was weird because I honestly had forgotten she had my number. I will always remember what she had said that morning, “Madison, you need to get to the hospital. Sid, Stefan and Shane were in an accident.” I froze, at this point I was in complete disbelief, it was like the words coming through the phone were something out of a movie, something that just doesn’t happen and couldn’t possibly be real. Especially not to the ones I thought were invincible. …show more content…
My friend Shane ended up being okay, thankfully after two weeks he woke up from his coma and went to a rehabilitation center. But for the rest of my life I will never forget that day and all the emotions I felt. It was the first time I felt all those emotions in that sequence and to the extent that I had felt them. It was the first time in my life that I didn’t think everyone I loved around me was invincible. I knew after that, that nobody’s invincible and that bad things happen to good people all the time, and there was just nothing I could do about