Personal Essay: Lessons Learned From A Friend

In life, a great many of us have had moments where we felt we did not have the strength or courage to conquer or face our fears. I also used to feel that way about a lot of things, however one day, when I was younger, I had an experience that helped me realize that if you take the initiative and give it your all, and along with some help from a friend, you can in fact overcome your fears no matter how daunting or difficult the task may seem. When I was little I loved to play outside with my friends, as many kids do. We would usually play on a big playground that my grandpa had built for me and my siblings near my house. My friends and I enjoyed it very much because we could play on it whenever we wanted and not have to have our parents take us to a park in town or have to be there with us and watch us. Unfortunatley though on this day no one accompanied us to the playground. No one was there to watch us. It was just my friend and I there. When I was about six or seven my friend Jason, who was also the same age at the time, and I went to go play there. We played for hours and I felt happy …show more content…
Fear made us feel hopeless and powerless, it immobalized us. We felt we could do absoleutly nothing but stay where we were and hope that the dog did not wander closer to the playground and find us. Eventually, however, it did and it walked closer to where Jason and I were squatting, hiding. At that moment we realized we had to do something, we knew that just standing there letting our fear get in the way of us doing something was getting us no where. We knew we had to take the initaitve and give it our all to face our fear of the dog. Somehow we both snapped out of our hypnotic trance of fear and stood up. The dog started to bark and run at us, but we started to scream as loud and violently as we could. We gave it our all. We began to pick up rocks and throw them at the dog, surprisingly after hitting it a few times, it turned and run