Adrenaline Rush Essay

Adrenaline Rush Essay Isn 't it weird how you feel most alive when your heart pounds against your chest and cant seem to catch your breathe? This instance is what most would refer to as an adrenaline rush. Dictionary. com explains that an adrenaline rush is a sudden burst of energy from an increase in the hormone and neurotransmitter adrenaline, which increases factors such as heart rate, blood pressure, persperation, blood sugar, and metabolism. Now, I wouldnt consider myself to be an "adrenaline junkie," but I dont mind getting them sometimes! Everybody has there own way of getting there heart to race, like driving race cars or bungee jumping, but a few ways I can relate to include getting in trouble, jumpming off of a bridge, and playing …show more content…
I remember this one specific time where I had just gotten in trouble for breaking my sisters new doll. I cant remeber why I broke it, but I did. I was of course, put into time out by my mom. She left me in my room to sit, while she went back to cleaning the kitchen up. I had the devious idea of sneaking out, just so I could go outside to swing on my favorite little blue swing. I thought about how much trouble I would get in if I got caught, but I figured it was worth a try. So, I peaked out the door and fair enough, the coast was clear. Slowly, I inched my bedroom door open and made a run for it out the front door! "That was easy!" I thought. I swung on my little swing out back until my mother looked out the kitchen window to see me happily sitting on my swing. She yelled out my name and that was were my heart was really racing. I jumped off of my swing and ran as fast as I could back into my room, where I had to stay for awhile …show more content…
Well, in this case, yes. When I was a freshman in highschool, my friends and I would go tubing down the creek in Long Pine, NE to pass time during summer. At the end of our tubing route, we would get out of the water and wait for one of our parents to pick us up. At the end of our tubing trips stood an old bridge, it wasn 't a super high bridge, but it wasnt that close to the gently rushing water below either. We discovered that there was a deep pool of water right below the little bridge. The water was deep enough to where if was difficult to touch the bottom. So, one of my friends decided that it was deep enough to jump in off the bridge and sure enough, it was. When my turn came to try it out, I could feel my heart hitting against my chest, but I figured if they all could do it, I could too. So I picked the spot where I wanted to land, took a deep breathe and jumped in. To this day, it 's still one of our favorite things to do after