and won a monumental battle and, in a way, I had beat death. This really put a dent in my parents’ financial savings. My dad was making about less than two hundred and fifty dollars a month because he was still young. This experience turned me into a critical thinker and someone who always weighs available options well before making a decision. Also, it made me observe my surroundings more, sometimes like a paranoid person, and turned me into someone who could kill a good mood with ideas of the worst things happening. Simultaneously, the event helped me academically because of my fear to leave the house. Consequently, about a year later, I was already two grades ahead of my peers because my parents used the time I spent at home to teach me the basics of science and mathematics. The thing that makes this event so special for me is that I was able to live for a purpose. There must be something great in the future for all of this to occur without ending in death. It was hard growing up with this story because I felt it should be something I should tell but thinking about it caused flashbacks to the demon-like creatures. The amount of fear I was dealing with was a lot for a young lad and my parents wouldn’t stop bringing up the topic every time we went to church. In a way, though I wanted to erase this event from my memory, what I didn’t realize was that it was a part of who I am. I am currently the youngest among my peers and though I feel that I am growing so fast, I wouldn’t change this experience for anything else. This year, September 17 will be the 12th anniversary. My family and I will go out to celebrate this day as a way to thank God for my life.
Me falling into the well could arguably be the best and the worst thing to happen to me. I want to share this story to show others that everything that happens in your life happens for a reason. There is no such thing as “coincidence” or “by luck.” The only fact is that it helps you grow as a person. Personally, it makes me even cooler than I thought I was and hopefully one day this event can inspire another soul to write their own story that shaped them.
THE FATES ceramic Sophie Caillault // 11
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