It was about one o’clock in the afternoon on a Sunday, around the spring time, when I had an experience that changed the rest of my life..
As I walked outside to my car to get to work, I heard the sound of someone rustling in my backyard. I walked toward my backyard and soon found out that it was my best friend Sebastian, walking around with his cockatoo named Mac on his shoulder. As I wondered why he was even here, We began to sit at my patio where there was a couple of chairs there for us to sit. We talked a while and played with his bird to pass time. After about fifteen minutes had passed, Mac suddenly flew up into a tree that was partially hanging into my yard. We both knew that Mac couldn’t fly too far because his wings were clipped, but we had to get him down from the tree. I first began to try and net him with a swimming pool pole. The harder I tried however, the higher up Mac flew up. Eventually Mac got too far for the pole’s reach, so I grabbed a ladder my dad kept in the shed to boost me up higher. After climbing about 18-20 feet in the air, I again tried to get Mac with the swimming net, but while I recklessly was swinging the pole around, an electricity wire was there laying camouflaged between the tree branches.
At first I did not know what was going on. I felt a sudden rush of tingles go through my body. Electricity flew through my body like I was Zeus. I had the urge of closing my eyes and falling backwards, it was a 18-20 ft drop from where I was. Then I closed my eyes and all I could see was flashing red pulses like if tiny fireworks were popping at a mini 4th of July party. I started to lose feeling and felt unbalanced, I managed to keep my grip on the ladder while Sebastian, clueless of the situation, was chirping like a parrot repeatedly asking if I got his cockatoo. The stress of what was running through my mind was hectic, the thoughts of how I will get down and if this was it for me were flooding my mind. I soon regained the feeling in my legs, enough to get myself down from the ladder. Once I got down, I hit the floor.
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I opened up my eyes and saw Sebastian hovering over me, I tried to talk but my voice was still fried from the shock. I couldn’t move a muscle, Sebastian continually asked if I was okay but it felt like he was on the other side of a thick glass pane. I could see and hear what he was doing, but I couldn’t react, I couldn’t let him know I was okay. I thought to myself “what if this is how I’m going to be the rest of my life? What am I going to do?”
I remember looking right into Sebastians face, full of fear and uncertainty. I managed to say that I was okay. The relief in his face was inevitable. I put my hand out to him and his hand came jumping back, he picked me up and patted my back and asking me what the hell happened up there. We went inside for a drink and I told him everything, I told him that his bird got away and that in the process I swung and hit an electric wire. He couldn’t help but chuckle and I looked up angrily, but shook it off. We both knew that this would be a hell of a story to tell in the future, he continued to ask if I was okay and just to get him off my back I said I was, but truly I wasn’t sure.
Soon after we chugged down our drinks Sebastian left, he gave me a few numbers to some doctors that he recommended I should check out. I called a few but I knew I was okay. I got up and left for work, on the way there I couldn’t stop thinking of how lucky I was to be alive! I thanked god and messaged Sebastian and thanked him for his help. I looked around the dim street I was driving on and all the people walking on the side walk and thought how anyone’s life could be gone within a second. How lucky we all are to be alive and live our lives every day is a blessing in disguise.
Weeks and months passed on and still till this day I cherish every second that I live. I continue to help not just myself but others. Volunteering in the community and being a 24/7 father to my daughter. Not a day passes by where I don’t think about that day in my back yard. How lucky I was for someone to be by my side and for luck to be on my side as well.
