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Personal Narrative: The Day I Saved My Life

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I was seven years old when I almost drowned. I was a Girl Scout back then. I never really wanted to be in Girl Scouts, because the idea of selling cookies, meetings, and camping trips was not really my thing, but my mom insisted on me being a girl scout. All the girls in my group went to school with me, I did not really get along with most of them, because I was shy and kept to myself back then. I never had the thought of drowning, and never thought it would happen to me, but that day I was wrong. I still look back on that day and think “I am very lucky to still be alive”, all thanks to the person who saved my life. It was just like any other camping trip that we went of almost once a month. Like always I begged my mom to let me stay home, …show more content…

I was not the best swimmer in the world. Luckily we only wadded in the shallow area. It was very difficult to wad, the ground was covered in slippery wet mossy rocks. All of the girls were going more into the deep water so I decided to follow. I got past the point of the water being at my jaw, I decided to stop there. It was too deep, I was standing on my toes. Then right there it hit me; “I am not the world’s best swimmer”. I decided to turn back which resulted in a big mistake. I slipped on a mossy rock and fell into the deep end. I tried my best swimming abilities for help but it was doing me no good. I screamed for help but all the other girls were in the far distant. “This is it”, I thought to myself, “I am going to die”. As I slowly sank in the depth of the water I felt a hand grab my arm and pull me to the surface. It was my Girl Scout leader, she saved my life, she was a hero. I could see the fear and worry in her eyes as she patted my back. “What were you thinking!?” she says, “Peer Pressure”? , I suggested. The whole experience of almost drowning, was probably the scariest thing in my life. I learned that day to never let peer pressure get to me, it’s not worth it, and it’s not worth drowning over. Without my leader saving my life I probably would not be here

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