MY LIFE

Today was the scariest day of my life. I found myself shaking nervously and even crying after an incident right in front of the Virginia War Memorial. This is how it all started from my point of view. After being told that all students that weren't interviewing people had to leave I made my way to the bus stop with my upperclassmen friends. Everything was going fine. We were playing around and laughing with each other. That's when I had realized that i needed a bus ticket, which if I was going to get I would need to walk all the way back to the school. Instead of me going, my friend Dominique decided that he was going to run back to the school just to get me a bus ticket. So while he was doing that I was just hanging out on the small walls right in front of the Virginia War Memorial while the other people at the bus stop were a little ways behind talking to each other. Then all of a sudden I turn my head to my left only to see a car flipping in mid-air. Glass rained as the car windows broke. And not only that but, right afterwards the steel pole right there at the bus stop fell on top of the car. Through out the whole time i was watching I didn't know what to do. I just stared and watched while slowly backing up in shock. I had never seen any car accident before but today that changed. Since I'm a Christian I believe that if it wasn't for my strong belief in God i would probably have died or been seriously hurt because that pole didn't land on the car on its own. It was God that did that for me. Once the pole had hit it was a quick second before anyone responded. Then i saw Megan and Jordan walked by me walking towards the messed up car. It was a Caucasin woman in the vehicle that Jordan helped out. After seeing Jordan do that i have like the upmost respect for that guy because i don't think i really would have helped as quick as he did if at all because of how shoken up I was. After the woman got out of the car and sat down I walked over to her and asked her was she okay. The first time I asked her she just looked at me. I could see the fear in her eyes. Once I asked her the second time she finally responded "Yeah but I don't know what happened". After a little way help finally came and they taped off the area. For a while I just stayed at the bus trying to get myself together. That's when i finally gave the situation some real though. What if the car flew at me? What if the pole hit me? I was the only person right who was the closest to the accident which really put me in jeopardy. If I had died right then and there in front of all my friends my life would have been all for nothing. I haven't accomplished anything really major since I'm not an adult yet so if I die all things i have done,all the people I've met, all the things I've said would have all been for nothing. My dad has always told me that I'm not grateful but after that I can see what he meant. So now I am grateful. I am grateful for every little thing that happens to me. I am a tough guy and all but after witnessing something like that then realizing that I should be more grateful made me cry. It made me think about the fact that I could have died but, I didn't. I even started crying more when I though about my family because today could have been the day I never saw them again. While i tried to collect myself my friends were there by my side trying to comfort me. i really appreciated that because it showed me that I chose the right people as friends. After staying at that bus stop for a while I walked to the other one with Dominique planning on catching the 71 K-mart. I wanted to get home as soon as I could but I wasn't able to get myself together. The thing that kept coming into my head was that i could have died but I'm still here. I'm still alive. Then tears came down my face once again. That's when my junior friend Jessica came to me and gave me comfort. After noticing that I was still sad and crying a bit Dominique decided to call my mom and tell her to pick me up at school. When we got back to school we waited in front of it until my mom came. Once she picked me up and told her what happened and she took me home. When i got home my mom told me to get some rest so while i did that I decided to think about my life and all the mistakes I've made. After being in this incident my father won't have to worry about me not being grateful anymore because I will and that's a promise. ....