the day i saw light

-Sigh- I remember this day as if it happed yesterday. I was minding my own business just walking along the shoreline. I was wearing my amazing black swimming shorts and showing off my mike Tyson body. My abs were rock hard and my mussels had veins popping out. Like, I was Rambo for no reason.

I was checking everyone out on the beach and laughing at fat old heads that were laying on the beaching thinking they had a body like me. I turned and I stopped to look over at the horizon and the birds or seagulls if flying and the laughter of children and people enjoying their lives. I decided to be like David Husaloff and just run into the water and do a swin dive like that guy off the old spice commercial.

So I did and I thought that I was swimming when I was just really on all fours doing a doggie paddle. Then as the water current pulled me into the dark blue abyss and tried to swallow me. I began to fight for my life fight for my last breath to live another day to see the beautiful clear and blue sky and just to see my family again. I felt like I was going to die and breath my last breath.

I push and push as hard as I could, but my Rambo body was just no match for the water. I began to scream at the top of my lungs for help. I didn’t know if I was going to make it, I felt like this was it, I began to think about life as I slowly drifted away. I closed my eyes just to have a painless death. That’s when three lifeguards came to my aid and pulled me out of this oblivion of water.

My body was in shocked it felt like I just escaped the hands of death and the sisters of fate could not hold me. I laid there on the warm sand and looked up at all the people that were looking down at me. I felt like I was brought back to life or out of enemy fire. I laid there until the lifeguard ever so kindly helped me up and walked me over to the shade and offer me some water. I told him “why would I want water after it tried to kill me my good man but thank you.” He took the bottle and walked away as he said, “Don’t mention it.”

After that acident I swore never to lay foot on a beach again but the day after that I was they’re again lying on the sand looking out at the ocean. I began to think about my life, what was ahead of me, so much to do I just can’t die, not yet. I still need to do so much things like make a family, meet the woman of my dreams and be at my sons wedding all that was almost lost cause I would have died in that water. I almost created a time paradox in my life and my impacts on the world to come.

I stood and began to slowly walk over to the line that divided the sand and the water and began to breathe. I slowly walked in and that’s when my brother grasped my hand and pulled me back.

“No, what are you thinking?” he asked me.

I turned and looked at him. “What other choice do I have!”?

He sighs and walked away. I turn back to the view of the horizon and just took a seat in the water as millions of thoughts ran through my mind. Like, if those two heroes would have never have saved me or if I would have got stuck on something under water that could’ve been the end for me and I would have lost everything that I worked and earn so hard to get and I would have died at age 16 and lost everything that were to come in my life. Also, my family how would they have token my death? Im the most realiable person that they can depend upon and my friends. Who would be there to help them in need or when they would need back up or just jokes from Aidan I wouldn’t have been there. I though of everything in that one moment. Things that I never came across in my life. Just goes to show “you never know what you have until you almost lose it. Well, trust me, I though that tragic moment and I wont be taking advantage over it again, I will make my life the most of it.

So, ever since that tragic day, I have been a bit more careful about my actions and what I do and how I do because every day you come in face with a new obstacle that can easily take your life and that would be the end. Im not saying to be paranoid every second of the day but to just take caution about the actions that you do. You should leave the thoughts of everything that you have still to come till you’re at the brick of life. Take consideration into your life and show everything or everyone that you love that you care dearly about them because you can lose them just like that.

So I learn a lot of life lessons since that day and I know never to try to do something that you know you can do or have absolutely no change of doing. I tried to swim even though I didn’t know how to and I was in the ocean that could have easily swallowed me. So, you can learn a lot of life lessons in life just make sure not to wait till your at that brick of death and living. I have enjoyed re writing about this awful life stage.

                                                                                                        To be continued…

Aidan Rios