Natural Life Essay

May 15, 2014 I hear my grandpa calling my name from my room upstairs. I walk down stairs and he tells me my dad’s had an accident. At this point I think my dad’s dead, because of how my grandpa word’s it, and my initial shock, but he’s alive. He was living in Virginia with my sister when it happened, so we leave for Virginia that night. We make it there the next afternoon and I finally get to see my dad. It was a challenge seeing a loved one with hundreds of tubes coming out of them, hearing that he might not make it through the night, and if he does he might not be able to see and so on. Seeing what at this point didn’t even really resemble my dad was very challenging.

It was the first Sunday of December morning when my father asked me to take some boxes to the basement, I had never been down there, as a kid I always thought it was scary, but know as a 19-year-old guy, how could I say no. I went downstairs with a couple of boxes, but could not find any place to put them. The area was a mess, so I decided that I would organize every box that was there. While I was organizing, I notice this one box hidden in the back, so, I decided to open it. Inside the box, there was a newspaper and a couple of burnt pictures. Therefore, I decided to read the article, I could not understand much, it was an 18 years old newspaper, but it talked about a burning house with two twin babies, It said that one had been saved with no harm while the other one was rescued later on with severe burn mark. It was a miracle that other baby had survived, they called him miracle Carlos, and his brother Richard. I stood there for a second before my brain processed

I could hear my breathing as if it was a voluntary action. As I saw my mom car come screeching into the driveway, she rushed out, I ran up to her as I tearfully asked, "Is he okay?" With hesitancy and a sorrow- filled voice she said, "He's dead," I screamed over and over again, "No, no, not my brother! Anyone but him!" and I broke down crying, I felt as if I was paralyzed, I felt like I was suffocating; as if a giant hand was clamped around my heart, I wanted to run, I wanted to scream, I wanted for it to not be

My head felt as if it was too explode, blood was dripping down from my forehead, and a throbbing pain was coming from my leg. At first I had no idea where I was or what was happening. In the distance I could hear a scream, although it was fading and my eyesight was blurry. I tried to stand up as I remember but I was not able too. I kept wondering to myself if this was a dream, but I felt pain. Terrible pain. How could I feel this much pain if it was a dream. Then all at once it came back to me. The memory, the fear, the frightfulness, the nervousness, and the sadness.

I howled out loud and begged him to wake up as I felt I was at a loss. I didn't know this man, but I longed so hard for his survival. When the ambulance showed up the man displayed mild responsiveness, however I worried that he was not going to make it. As I looked at his beaten body being carted away, I felt my whole perception of the world

Reality set in at this moment and I raced over to my brother and embraced him to let him know everything was ok. He looked up at me and asked me if dad was going to die. I remember fighting back my tears and telling him that our daddy was super strong like a superhero and that he was going to be just fine. After a distressing three hours passed I was finally allowed to go back and see my dad. He was lying in a bed almost lifeless. At that moment, they did not know if he was going to have brain damage or if he was going to live through the night. He was covered from head to toe in blood, cuts, and bruises. I could overhear my mom yelling at a nurse at the station asking why they weren’t doing surgery or helping my dad. The nurse asked her to calm down and explained that the head injury my dad suffered from being thrown into a metal telephone pole was extensive and the doctor was examining the x-rays before they could do

When I woke up that morning it was just like any other summer morning getting ready to go to work. I woke up showered, got dressed, and grabbed a quick bite to eat. Out the door I went, it was a warm but cloudy morning in the beginning of July. Since I only had to drive to the west side of Sioux falls, which was closer to Humboldt where I live, I decided I was going to take gravel over to the highway like I always did going to that side of town. Off to work I went ready to start the day. Because I hate driving to work in the morning, I make it better by listening to the radio. I was driving down the gravel road when suddenly I blew a tire, got sucked right into the ditch. Just like that I slammed right into a utility pole, my mouth slammed

Father rushed my brother, Lucas and I into a room with his close friend, Stewart, he doesn't say much about himself ;not knowing what was going on we did not factious over it and stay put and quiet. Father had gone away for quite some time, I felt a chill in the air, the room turned to a dark, dirty yellow and I realized the room was not pleasant as before, like if something awful was about to happen. Then we heard noises above us, and a loud thump on the door, thinking it was father I had open the door when Stewart yelled "No!", there was a body barely holding himself up, he had what resemble three shot wounds in his chest, blood leaking and holding a gun. When I looked up to meet this wounded person's eyes they were wild, his blond messy

Then we picked up all the bags and brought them inside.My dad started up the grill once we were finished unloading the grocerys. When my dad turned on the grill , it made a hsss sound. I went back inside. My mom was taking the chicken out of the container. I walked over to her slowly. She was pouring out the orange pop into a glass. She then put the empty pop can on a pan. Then she put the chicken on top of the can of pop. She picked up the chicken, arm by arm, the she

After this, my dad knew I wouldn’t stop, he knew what this meant. He took me to a doctor right away. the car ride was one painful ride but we made it. We go to a doctor and he puts me to sleep. Everything goes black. I couldn’t open my eyes. Night past and day came. When I woke, I noticed something. Something

One night My mom, her friend Jared, and I were driving up a mountain to go camping and at like 1:30 in the morning and I was halfway asleep in the backseat squished and then are car just starts rolling backwards and I jumped up and asked “ Why are we rolling backwards?” then all of of us started screaming “AHHHHHHHHHH!!” we were going really fast and all of the coolers and a portable grill landed on my head and it was terrifying. Befor I knew it the car was completely on its side in a ditch and we could barely open the door because of gravity and I had to climb out the window. On the way down we took out at least 3 trash cans and like four mailboxes. It took at least four hours for the tow truck to come and in those four hours liken three

Sometime during early fall, I was on the back of my grandpa’s truck that we borrowed I don’t know exactly what we were doing the day but I do remember I was about 7 and we were picking up trash. My current care giver in which I won’t reveal the identity of went inside to go get water for the both of us it only took about a minute until she returned. Little did we both know my life could come to a horrible conclusion in the brief minute. While she was gone I did what any ignorant 7 year old would do I slacked off and decided to pass the time by waiting.

I am walking down to see my father. I get downstairs and as I get closer to him I fall. I can’t breath my tongue just swell up. I hear my fathers attendant say “he is possessed and must be taken to the temple.” I blackout. I wake up and a priest is staring at me.

My father’s expression turned unreadable and at that moment, I knew I was dead. I started running and did not dare to stop until I was in my room. Tears stained my cheeks. It wasn’t fair.

I would define nature as the world around us without any type of human involvement. I believe that nature is anything natural to the earth. It is the plants, animals, rivers, forests, birds, weather, etc. It is a gift given to us from god. Most people believe that nature is just centered on the thought of the ocean and forest. Nature to me is the life source for all living creatures it provides us with the four essential things that we need to survive which are food, water, air, and shelter. However, we are so disconnected from nature we do not see the constant damage that is destroying our home.