It's scary being alone and even scarier when you don't know where you are. The only more terrifying thing than that is adding something traumatic to top it off, for instance, drowning. On that day I learned that there was a difference between knowing how to tread water and swimming on the surface.
I was at the river with my dad and my brother and the river dropped off as I took a step. I was swept down stream for what seemed like an hour eventually being caught by a stranger and brought to sore. Now that I think about it this man should have helped this seven year old boy find his dad, the dad who had no clue where I had went.
I made my way upstream and intercepted my dad in the middle, or close to it. Apparently I had gone
I was at the river with my dad and my brother and the river dropped off as I took a step. I was swept down stream for what seemed like an hour eventually being caught by a stranger and brought to sore. Now that I think about it this man should have helped this seven year old boy find his dad, the dad who had no clue where I had went.
I made my way upstream and intercepted my dad in the middle, or close to it. Apparently I had gone