Autor: Weverton Ataide | Publicado: 2013-10-07T00:43:00-07:00


First essay ENG101: "Two specific stories culled from your own life experience in order to explain some larger concept" ( Jolly 1).



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Listen to the wise could make things
easier



In 2002, when I was 11 years old, my
mom took me on a ship tour around Porto Seguro’s beaches. On that beautiful
sunny day she took me on the tour to see one of the most beautiful things I had
ever seen in my whole life, the bottom of the sea. To see this perfect gift
given from God the humanity, we needed to take a ship on the beach and travel
to the middle of the ocean. 

Then we got to a sandbar called
Coroa Vermelha. Around Coroa Vermelha there is a cluster of coral, where
tourists can meet all beings that live on the seabed. To see all of the things
is possible just because of the phenomenon that occurs twice every day on the
ocean: the rise and fall of the tide. When the tide falls, rocks that were
under the water start to appear in the middle of the ocean and then we can see
all the coral. There are places where tide pools are formed where it is
possible to swim with fish, take some sea ​​urchins in the hand and have a lot
of fun.




We spent about 2 hours in that
wonderful place. We took a lot of pictures together diving with a lot of
colorful fish; we saw a clown fish and also took a lot of urchins in the hand.
I was so surprised by a lot of things that live on the seafloor. 

That was the second time that my mom
was in Coroa Vermelha, so she knew everything that was going to happen. She
told me, “son, about 4 o’clock the tide will start to rise, so you take the
boat and go back to the ship, because I will go back swimming.” Then I replied:
“yes mom,” but at 4, when I saw her leaving to the boat I just thought that I
could do the same and started to swim after her, because I had in my mind that
swimming in the ocean was the same as swimming in the swim pool, but I was
wrong. I know how to swim very well in the swim pool, but in the ocean, the
water moves, it is alive and I did not know that I was not going to have
success in my way back to the ship. My mom got to the ship really fast, but I could
not do the same.

When the tide started to rise, waves
were formed going and coming in all directions. They were uncontrollable and
the ocean got really agitated. I was in the middle of all of those waves, so I
got really nervous. I tried to swim but there were many waves and they were
covering me. I drank a lot of seawater that day. 

Before I passed out from drinking a
large amount of water, I stretched my leg and realized that the place I was in
was still shallow water. So I got up and waited for the boat to come and pick
me up. I was alive, safe and sound. At that time I was pale, shaking all over
my body and nervous. I really felt that I was going to die, that no one would
see me and that it was the end of my life.

Fortunately that was not my last day
on this earth, but I think I did not learn very well to listen to my mom,
because 10 years later I found myself in the same situation.

The second time I found myself in
that situation happened in the summer vacation of 2012. I traveled with my
mother to Ilheus to spend our New Year’s Day there. It is really common in the
end of the year for Brasilia’s families travel to some place in Brazil that has
beaches, since we do not have them in our city. Ilheus is a beautiful city with
amazing beaches located in the northeast part of Brazil. That year my mom was
so happy, because I had just arrived from Taiwan and she was meeting me again,
the most important thing that she has in her life. She missed me a lot during
the time that I was doing my exchange program, so when I went back to Brazil
she just wanted to do something with me, and the thing that I like most to do
is to travel, so she invited me to join her in that trip.

She was so proud of me, because I
went to Taiwan alone. I lived there for more than 6 months on my own doing
everything by myself. She could not even believe that I was able to do it, and
I did, so she got really happy with me. We were having a very good time in
Ilheus’ beaches, getting some sun, drinking coconut water and playing on the
beach. My mom loves to swim in calm water, but if there is one thing that
Ilheus’ beaches are not, it is calm. The ocean there is really dangerous and
you need to be totally careful, so my mom did not swim during those days and
she told me not to go to deep water.

I really love to swim on the beach,
because I believe that the water of the ocean has the power to wash our soul,
so every time that I had the opportunity to go to the beach, I really enjoyed
my time there. I swam a lot and that day was not going to be different. It was
my first time in Olivença Beach, the green and blue water, beautiful white sand
and giant coconuts trees, all of these things together won me over. I put
sunscreen on my skin, took out my t-shirt and shorts, took my bodyboard and
went to the water. 

I spent about 30 minutes
bodyboarding, I got tired and then I decided to relax. I lay down on the
bodyboard, closed my eyes and relaxed. The heat of the sun on my back was so
comfortable, the sound of the waves so relaxing. The waves were carrying me
from deep to shallow water, it was too good to be true and when I opened my
eyes I had the worst new of that trip. I thought: “ Oh my goodness, I need to
go back to the beach!” I opened my eyes too late.




In front of me there was a man
totally scared, swimming very strongly, trying to go out the water, and then I
realized that we both fell in the rip current. At that time I did not know what
this current was and also I did not know how to get out of it, so I started to
swim really hard as well, but trying to swim against the rip current is a waste
of time, because it is almost impossible. The guy was so lucky and escaped from
the current and got out the beach, but, I was with my bodyboard, so it floated
on the water in the current’s orientation really fast and I could not go back
to shallow water.

At this moment all of the people on
the beach got out of the water and looked at me, and my mom realized that
something was wrong. She was lying on the sand, so she stood up and saw me. I
was really far away, fighting hard against that strong current. She thought
that I was drowning. Actually those looking from the beach had the impression
that I was drinking a lot of water, because when the waves were breaking I disappeared,
and when the waves were being formed, I appeared. Because of the effort that I was
making to swim, my arms were always up, so it seemed that I was asking for
help. If in that moment I had swum in the diagonal, I would have gone out of the
water for sure, but I did not. 

My mom did not hesitate, looked at
the lifeguards and screamed, ”save my son.” I was okay; it was not possible to
drown above the bodyboard, because it floats, but no one could see that I was
not drowning. No one could understand what was going on there, they just thought
about what it looked like.

The lifeguards did not think twice,
they just ran on the sand and dove. Two lifeguards got in the water to take me
out, they spent less than 1 minute to get in my bodyboard, and then they looked
at me and asked: “Are you okay? Are you drowning?” I answered quickly: “yes I
am okay, I have this bodyboard.” Then the lifeguard took a deep breath and
said: “Oh, you have a bodyboard!” At this moment I felt comfortable. I was
still in the water, facing those crazy waves, but not alone anymore, the
lifeguards were there as well.

Then they told me that we were going
to swim in the direction of the deep ocean and then we would escape swiming in
the current’s direction in the diagonal. We did and less than 5 minutes we were
back on the sand. Everybody was watching my rescue and when I got out of the
water with the two lifeguards the people started to applaud the successful job
done that afternoon. I looked around and tried to see my mom, and there she was,
nervous, pale and shaking her arms and legs. 

I looked at her and a lot of times
when she told me to do things and I disobeyed her came into my mind. I flunked
the 6th grade of school, because she told me to pay attention on
classes, to do my homeworkers and to study, but the only thing I wanted to do
those days was play games and have fun with my friends. She asked me to not
leave home during the night and I went outside to play soccer with my friends,
then I kicked the ball at my neighbor’s house and I broke his window’s glass.
There are more cases which I did not listen to my mother and I failed.

It is a challenge for children to
obey their parents, because they always think that they can find out better
solutions for their problems. When we are child we want to test our parents, we
want to see how the system works and we do, so it is really difficult to follow
all orientations that our parents give for us. We want to live our life in our
own way. We also need to think that our parents can be wrong sometimes, but I
still think the better solution is to listen to them.

On that day I noticed that every
time when my mom told me to do something and I did it in a different way, I had
no success. I realized that she possessed a kind of magic word. Whatever she
told me to do I just needed to do, because if I did not I was going to fail. 

Nowadays my mom and I do not live
together anymore, I have been doing all things that I need to do on my own and
just remembering all that time when she was used to tell me what should I do.
Even thought I disobeyed her a lot I almost always tried to do things on the
way that she told me and with all of this time that I lived with her I learned
to find my independence. Today I can travel whatever place in the world I want
with no problem, I can budget my money and I know how to be a responsible man.
Be obedient is a virtue that can open or close doors as much as we want.









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