Milestone

I didn’t try to write a milestone essay at first because I assumed milestone meant something great that happen which made your life changed significantly. But now I know that it doesn’t necessarily mean that. It could be anything bad or good—or even neutral I suppose, if that’s even possible—that has a significant change in your life. It’s that or I’m just trying to think of a really good excuse. Either way, now that the disclaimers are done I shall begin.

It all start when I was still in second grade. Very unwise I was, naive as well. I still consider myself quite naive today just because I want to, but I digress. Back then, I had a friend named James, and he still is my friend. We played video games and such, just like what you expect from kids. One of those days we had brought over a few more people, friends that I knew as well. What had we done you may ask? Hardcore drugs obviously… I’m kidding of course. What we really did was play tag! Now I had an advantage over everyone else, an unfair advantage which I gave myself, because of how I was the slowest out of everyone in the group. At the same time though, this great advantage, had also been a liability.

What is this liability? What is this advantage? How can two thing almost opposite of each other be so near? It was the option to cross the street. I know what you’re thinking: this kid must be a special kind of stupid … yeah that kid was pretty dumb now that I think about it. But nevertheless I used this “advantage” constantly, especially since the other kids couldn’t; they were not allowed to. This street rarely had any cars passing by and even if car were to pass by I would have been able to hear them. But this one car wasn’t passing by, it was only starting its engine; it ...

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...o help you remember what I’d said I’ll just quote myself with italics because I can.

“Have you ever had a moment in your life where everything flashes before your eyes? Well I had. It was sort of a pleasant felling. It was like I was flying on air, everything was bright. It was as if I was lying on warmth itself…” – Son Vo.

Well that was fun, but really now. During my flight through light, which really was euphoric, I had thought something, it was and still is something I would never think. I thought something roughly along the lines of, “Please save my God.” I thought this about a few seconds before I woken back into consciousness. I had said this without a second thought; it just happened. This is the reason why I will never judge anyone who believes in any religion, god, or anything else that relates to that. But that doesn’t necessarily mean I will or will not.