Woops
May 28, 2018 Uncategorized 0 comment eivy18
T’was a school morning and I had not fully woken up yet, the birds were chirping somewhere in the world and the sun while not warm that particular morning was out so that was a start. A lot of school mornings I don’t have an easy time getting out of bed, however when I do I have to do this spin out of bed that happens spontaneously and I can never control it. I laid there for a few minutes dreading the day and what was to come as every morning this was all normal. All I was doing was looking at memes on my phone and occasionally saving the funny ones to show my friends at a later time. This mach 5 spin was going to happen, it just felt like one of those mornings. I could feel it building like a pot that’s about to boil over and it did boil over. Mid spin my arm pops out, it’s holding my phone, my fingers slip. Some moments actually feel like they are in slow motion and this was one of them. The only other time this happened was when I was tubing with my cousin and my grandfather who was driving the boat keeps driving in circles to create a lot of big waves finally decides he found one big enough.
My grandfather, Craig, was in Vietnam and was happily retired but not happily married, well he drives at an angle and hits the wave with the tube just enough that I am upside down in the air mid barrel roll. Now that I am writing it maybe there is a connection here to the spin every morning and this moment. Anyways, I am upside down I look at my cousin, Cam, who by the way was a great hockey player and had scholarships lined up and even won best defensemen in the nation two weeks in a row was flying, sorry falling, away from the tube and hits the water while I am death gripping the yellow and blue tube which was able to hold my sister, my cousin, and I but my sister was not present in this situation. This incident felt like five minutes of adrenaline and laughing but realistically was like five seconds. As the tube slows down and I come back to reality my cousin, Cam, is laughing in the water behind me and starts swimming towards the pee yellow and royal blue tube with a checkered flag on it that was off center and 6 inches from the also pee yellow handle. All seven handles were like this, pee yellow and sturdy.
This is the same type of emotion running through me watching my phone graze the ceiling and instead of laughing I had fear in this moment, being a risk taker I didn’t have a case on it and seeing it fall I remember thinking “I should catch that” but I wasn’t able to move as it was the morning and I was still in bed. I see my silver iPhone 6 falling then it hits the ground. “S—!” I yell, my mother, who definitely heard me did not care about my language and does nothing to check to see what had happened but instead sits sipping her coffee and enjoying or trying to enjoy her morning. I get up out of bed and grab my phone and start laughing when I turn it over and see a crack. Did I deserve this? Most likely, I alone can think of multiple reasons why karma was to come back around. I was laughing as there is nothing I could do, the phone was cracked and that is irreversible. I can sit and sulk or I can laugh it off and enjoy my day.
