The most important thing or has happened to me was long gone away in the memories of mine. It was in the recent month when I happened to remember this incident, and I’ve been treasuring it ever since.
Backing up the years to 2003, the year I spent in America for the desire of learning English. That was the first year in New Jersey, America, living in my aunt’s place. One cloudy day when I was in the backyard of my aunt’s house, my brother had already gone back in the house for a drink of water after an hour of basketball games played with him. I strolled across on the grass with tree’s roots growing out of the ground. As I was holding the basketball in one hand, I stupidly placed it on the grass and took a foot on the ball. As a little child of ages 9, it was not possible to balance with your body standing on a ball placed on an uneven ground surface. I fell down immediately after my second foot land on it, head faces down as I fall. My neck bended with a cracked up sound when my head hit against the root, at that moment, my body lay on the ground without any intention of getting up. The truth is, I thought my life would end right there, because I perfectly well know that my spinal cord was snapped in two. Eyes looked into the clouds and asked this one question which I’ve long forgotten and wished to not say from my mouth ever again. “Are you taking me away now?” My tears fell down continuously on my cheeks. But in that one minute it happened, my legs seem to be pumped in energy as if from the electricity charge. I stood up and walked, I stood up and walked, I walked. My neck felt hard and stiff, but I try to move it side to side, and it worked. I walked quickly on to the porch and into the kitchen where family sits around the table talking. I hurried into the living room and sat down on a sofa. I couldn’t even smile but a relief, “Thank you”, was all I could say, nothing more.
That was the most precious experience and gift. The basketball after all has brings me memories of that time. This is my testimony and something I shall never forget ever again.
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Hey Hannah,
ReplyDeleteWhat happened after? Were you okay? How come I never heard this before? Oh well, but I am glad to meet you here at IBSH^_^ My favorite sentence is "I couldn’t even smile but a relief, “Thank you”, was all I could say, nothing more. " You are a really good girl and appreciate a lot of things. I am really surprised when I heard you said "thank you". Why did you say that? I mean this reaction will never happen to me.Haha. I will cry too, but definitely will get someone's help. My suggestion is that maybe you can take off the "the year I spent in America" part, it is good to tell the setting and background, but I think it is kind of too much. Just a suggestion, I dont know~ But still, what had happened on you and your reaction make the essay interesting, I like it^_^