Some people believe that you have to go to these great lengths to find courage or to figure out what they wanna do for their rest of their life, but that’s just not true. Take me for example. It took a three hour and seven-minute road trip with two of my closest friends to realize everything that I’ve been searching for. I know, I know, that is probably the corniest sentence you’ve ever read—but, it’s true. My path to self-realization starts Saturday at 10 a.m., a day after high school graduation; as in right now.
“Okay, I want you all to be safe! Make sure you wear your seatbelts, drive carefully. Do you guys have enough food?” My mom says, about to start her motherly checklist.
“Yes, mom. We know and we have everything we need” I say, giving her a hug before making my way to the beat up Lincoln Continental.
“Don’t worry Mrs. Park—“ Caleb begins, “— we’ll take good care of Melissa” and Adelaide added teasingly.
I look at my two long time friends and roll my eyes and let out a small laugh.
“Alright mom, I’ll see you in a few hours” I say as I sling the strap to my Nikon DSLR camera over my shoulder. Before I could get inside the car my mom grabbed me by the wrist and pulled me towards her.
“Honey, we talked about this” she said, pointing to my camera. Trying not to look hurt, I turned my gaze to the pavement before saying, “Yeah, I know mom. I just…I wanted to get some pictures of our road trip. Y’know for memories.” Before she could respond, I gave her quick kiss on the
I wave, and exit the car. I’m weak in the knees at the sight of him. Luckily, he rushes in and clutches my arm. “I’m so glad to see you,” he says, and assists me to the front door of
I took another deep breath and went back around one last time. This time my mom got out of the car to look from the outside. I came around the corner and went through my memorized steps of parallel parking. After I finished my mom came to the window and exclaimed, “That was great! But can we go home now?”
We need to go now.” Mom grabbed her purse, tossed me my rain jacket, and said, “Get to the car. Both of you.
"Make sure you all have your seat belts on and go to the gas station as soon as possible also love you lots" my mom told us as I got into the car.
Put the gun down! Put the gun down! Pow Pow Pow. The gun shots cracked into the air as loud as thunder. One after another. We live day by day not knowing our end. In the blink of an eye our lives can be changed forever. Its life, yet even in knowing this we never expect tragedy to find us. We never expect it to affect our lives and the people we know and love. I’m going to share with you the day tragedy found my life.
During the ride home, I’m tempted to get out of the car and walk home. But I don’t, I wouldn’t know how my mother will react. About a few minutes before I arrive home, my mother says,
She arrives at the school the next day. Amanda didn’t want to get out of the car, but she new it had to be done. “Have a nice day honey.” her mom waves goodbye as she drives away.
The drive to tennessee was too long. I don’t enjoy sitting in our sedan squeezed between my two younger siblings for 8 whole hours. As we enter the downtown area, my mother asks me to give her directions to aunt Jane’s house off of our map.
I walk to the trunk of the vehicle, my eyes meet my moms light green ones. She stops taking all of Ryan's hot pink suitcases out of the trunk and pulls me into a warm embrace.
“It was me!” I had replied, “Mom you're really going to let me drive with you?”
We get to our house and I look at my dad, he nods. I put my hand on the door handle and turn. My mom looks at me I can see a huge smile grow on her face. Tears of joy run down her face.
On 09/15/2016, I, Chad Agnew, was working as a patrol officer for the Wichita State University Police Department, in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. At approxiametely 1412 hours I was in a meeting with Cpt. Herl in his office when I heard Officer Faison ask for another officer to his location on the radio. I got up and left Cpt. Herl's office and started running out to a patrol vehicle. I ran to vehicle 11 and got in the driver side. Officer Albert got in the front passenger side. I drove us to the physical plant where I saw Officer Faison talking to an elderly male outside of a vehicle. I exited the patrol vehicle and activated the dashcam. The male that Faison was speaking with was later identified as John Smarsh. He was very antimated and upset that he was involved in an accident. I noticed Sgt. Moyer and Officer Tener were backing up Officer Faison and it seemed to upset Smarsh more that so
While opening the car door, I looked at my mom. "Mom, I promise you, I will be okay. I know that I turned 16 three months ago, but I'm perfectly capable driving to Eastwood."
“Okay, mom. Love you,” I quietly responded, already out of the door and heading to my car.
Loading the car with my sister’s clothes and other essentials, the only thing anyone said to me was, “Bryce can you grab this for your sister?” and “Bryce hold this so your sister doesn’t have to.” It took about an hour to get everything loaded into both cars. My mom spent a couple minutes to look at my sister’s hollow room before we left, reliving her favorite memories. Realizing that my sister has grown up and it’s time to move on, she looked as if she might start to cry. “Mom are you ready?” I asked. “Ready as I’ll ever be”, she whispered with her head down.