Change

The temperatures have finally risen above fifty degrees, and winter was over. A short period of time that everyone seems to enjoy during spring time is spring break. I was just as excited as any other 8th grade individual, feeling free to do whatever I want for an entire week. Free to go to bed whenever I please, wake whenever I desire, and laze around all day every day. Little did I know how this temporary break would soon have a drastic change on my life' I started the week just a lazy as I could possibly be, without a care in the world. Soon I became bored and rather lonely, and began to contact my closest friends. We talked it out and soon decided to have a small camping trip to Ridgeway, Texas where my family owns over two hundred acres. We all grabbed our tents, sleeping bags, four wheelers, and 22. Lr weapons. We dashed to our seats in my father’s truck excitedly waiting for him to take us all out there, seeing as though we couldn’t drive yet. He climbed in the driver’s side, put in drive and we were on our way! Once out to the property, my friends and I immediately wanted our four wheelers off of the trailer so that we could race to the camp site. As my father had caught up to us, we prepared the camping area just moments before dark. Night time however is the best time for us. Our four wheelers have their headlights on as we skim through the pastures. We study the light in front of us, hoping to find a cotton tail rabbit. As the rabbit jobs in front of us, we’d be chasing behind it until it finally seeks refuge in a tree, then we search in hopes to find another. As the night grew longer we began to tire. Seeing as though it was pitch black outside I let the group backed the campsite not knowing what I would soon encounter. On the way back I tried to take a shortcut for some brush and ran into a drop-off. Next thing that I knew I awoke and flat on my back with my friends looking down on my broken body. The four wheeler had flipped me off, and rolled on top of me. Luckily, my father was still in the area and was able to race me to a hospital where they found a crushed leg and two broken bones. They were also concerned that I had a major head injury and we stayed up most of the night praying. There’s no need for any had surgery as it turns out, only memories. The body still has pain every single day due to the trauma induced that night. I am certainly safer and more cautious with my actions and I’m always looking out for others. Those serving turn of events was just a freak accident, but it drew a thin line between life and death. That night was not the end. God still has me on this earth for a reason whether I know it or not. I can only hope that others learn from our mistakes and that they would influence them to be safer. I’m still lucky to this day, and can still recall every second of that dreadful night. The story has no effect on some people, people who do reckless things every single day. I learned my lesson the hard way and live with it every day.