Thursday, November 7, 2013

A PAINFUL AND EMBARRASSING MOMENT By Andrés Felipe Pérez Guizaho



There was a time when my family and I traveled a lot, I was 7 years old and We were traveling to the amazing Coveñas's beach, there are beautiful beaches right there and the weather is perfect or so I think. Well, we were staying in my grandmother's friend’s house and it was great because the house was just in front of the sea, and the view was pretty cool. However, as any good kid would, I ran to the beach, I took off my cloths and I jumped into the sea, this was the second time that I was in the ocean but it felt as if it were the first time.

Therefore, I’d been playing in the water for hours when my parents and my grandmother took the decision to go out of there and go to eat, that’s why they went out of the water but, I stayed in there, I didn’t care about anything, I was just playing with the waves and the lunch wasn't important enough to make me come out of the water, I don’t know if it was the destiny, karma or what, but in the moment in which I decided to disobey, suddenly a jellyfish grazed my arm and when that happened I felt the biggest pain in my whole life, a burn sensation ran around my arm and I was very scared and started yelling for help and ran away from the water, I didn't know what happened with me in that moment, I just knew that something stung me on the arm and I had to keep me out of the water, but my grandmother and a friend of her had been near me, watching me ,so immediately they ran to help me and to find out what was going on with me.


However, they arrived where I was, then my grandmother saw a large red spot in my arm and her friend yelled two possible solutions to my unknown source of pain (to me of course), one of them was to bury my arm in the sand, and the second one was to pee myself on my arm, so I don’t know why the second option sounded better to my grandma, but quickly she asked me: dear, do you want to pee right now?  But unfortunately I didn't, I tried, I swear! But, I didn't, so my grandma told me, don’t worry son I have to pee, so it isn´t a problem, and I was in sock not only because the painful wound, but also by my grandmother’s courageous action. Believe it or not, the pain was despairing for me but there isn`t any scar that puts in evidence the embarrassing moment that I had to live, but it will always be my mind as a funny and also shocking moment of my life. 

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