Height of Flying

Everyone has been a kid once. I'm sure that at some point, you've tried or been on a slide towards either colorful balls or water. We all have that moment in our lives where we wish we could be a kid once again. Where we'd reminisce moments that only kids are allowed to do. The moments we somehow regret not doing, or at least not trying. I have a fair share of stories in which I wish I could go back just to feel how it must have felt. And stories in which I laugh about every time I remember what the eleven year old me would do. Here's one.

One summer day my cousins and I were headed out to Splash Island. I'm not talking about any cousins, but they were my cousins from States who rarely visits us. I was  between ten to eleven years old that time. It was a stage where most kids think they're brave enough, but really, they aren't. Later that morning, my cousins started talking about how life in another country was. After the story session has ended, they decided to play a truth and dare game. When one of my cousins picked dare, she dared for all of us to go with her to the highest slide inside Splash Island. Of course I knew I was safe because my dad told me beforehand that no way in hell was I getting on any slide inside the resort. So I just kept on laughing with them while they all chicken out to agree. My cousins from the States suddenly told us that the price to whoever would try the slide would be a dollar. My other cousins got so excited and eventually agreed to do the dare. We were all preparing to stand when my cousins asked me if I was scared, I said, "Why would I be? I'm not joining." I was surprised when my cousins from the states asked my dad, no wait, begged my dad to allow me to go with them. I looked at my dad and prayed in my head for him to say no like he had before. But to my dismay, he had to show my other cousins that he was a "cool dad" so he said yes. I swear I wanted to kill my dad after those words came out of his lips. I was already up the slide preparing to go down when I heard loud screams of people trying out the slide. I just wanted to get over with it so I closed my eyes and slid down praying to God for him to pity me and not kill me. When I splashed down, my cousins hugged me and told me that they think the whole resort heard my loud screams.  I promised myself I would never do that again, but come to think of it, it wasn't as bad as it seemed to be.


In life, we would never know which ones we like doing without risking the fact that we'll whether like it or not. After we try, we might like it and if not, then just go try again and look for another good thing to attain. But if we never give it a shot, we'll just keep wondering what it must've been our whole existence. Remember, it is not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It is because we dare not venture that makes things difficult. So go and take the risk of falling, for you to experience the height of flying.

BIOGESICasoho_NA1