Good Night? How can you sleep knowing fare well what lies ahead tomorrow? You hope you have trained enough for this moment. Despite the overwhelming excitement, you reminisce about the car crash and curse being a paraplegic. You're excited for your new sports wheelchair that will arrive tomorrow morning. Your eyes get weary and you fall into a daze, but you quickly gain back your consciousness. Hope that the old blister on your right pointer finger won't open again. Mom knocks on your door and asks if you feel up to going to school tomorrow. You say, " I don't think I can bear it." She nods her head and goes back to her room.
The clock reads five in the morning, but you wouldn't know. You lay on your bed waiting for the sunrise until you finally see the tip of broad day light. Something is ...different. You can feel. You wiggle your toes unbelievably. Slowly, you start to move your right leg towards the end of the bed followed by your left leg until you're sitting on the side of the bed with a big smile no less. You now walk over, still in disbelief, to the opened window and inhale the fresh spring air.
One step after another you make your way downstairs and into the kitchen where your whole family has been waiting. You can tell all of them are overjoyed by the miracle that has taken place. Your Grandfather tells you to get going. As you near the front door you see a brand new mountain bike on the porch. You take off and go as fast as you can and as far as you can. You end up at the gates of the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadow in no time it seems. Your name is being cheered by hundreds of fans and you are taken to Arthur Ashe Stadium where you await your opponent. Who better to face than the tennis legend himself, who holds the most grand slam titles, "Pistol Pete" ? This is too much. Being able to play with your idol and favorite player of all time just defies description. The spotlight is on you and you can't help but to embrace it. You fail to remember what homework you have or what test you needed to be studying for because opportunities like this is almost never a frequent visitor especially for you.
The scene changes and you're back home in bed. You can't seem to wiggle your toes anymore, no feeling, just reality. You wake up to the sound of your alarm clock and as you wipe away the tears from your face, you whisper something. "If only they knew what it feels like..."
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Wow. I love how you start it off about the person being parapelgic but then you make it seem like a miracle occured. Then you go back to the truth of the harsh relaity this person is really living. I think that anyone has gone through something like this could probably really relate to it.
ReplyDeleteThis was really well written. Good job!
Amazing story. It has a totally different perspective than any other story. This is an ultimate dream come true, but like always reality steps in to replace it. It is important as you wrote "If only they knew what it feels like..." This would help people understand situations. I see it ties in you love for tennis.
ReplyDeleteI love this story. I love how the mood changes from stressed and tired to excitement and living a dream and then reality hits. This story can relate to almost everyone who has dreamed of becoming someone great and then has to come back to the harsh truth. You did a great job writing.
ReplyDeleteOh boo :(
ReplyDeleteThis story was really sad. The first time I read it, I missed the last paragraph. As I went back to read it, I started to tear. A teardrop fell onto of my cellphone, and now I am even sadder because the cellphone warranty doesn't cover water damage.
I think that you added too much realism, if there is such a thing. Even though part of me knows this is actually what happens in the real world, the other part of me wants to live in the dream world that occured right up to the last paragraph.