A Day to Remember

      “Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.” This quote alludes on how common enigmas are in one’s life for he or she can’t fathom and decode them entirely without having doubts. Puzzles can be developed when one experiences odd incidents that make them question their existence like a ghost encounter or plenty of other paranormal phenomena. I am still haunted daily and scarred from the accident that is carved in my brain giving me nightmares that remind me of the day I almost died.

      Last summer, on a hot sunny day, my father thought it was a good idea to go swimming in the lake beside our house. When I got out of the front door, I felt the breeze throughout my spine giving me chills for the whole day. People usually say that a swim in this lake would freshen you up and clear your mind from worries and concerns but I’d say otherwise. Every time I go into this lake, the feeling of calmness and relief fills up my whole body with its warm water, but this time, the water was cold and the fish were not to be seen. And that’s when I found out something wasn’t right.

I tried to ignore my feelings of suspicion and wariness, then kept swimming with my father who belittled the situation into thin air after I have informed him about my theory. The inkling of anxiousness grew inside me when I first jumped into the lake but I shoved it to the back of my head to enjoy my time with my dad. When my dad got up to get me the towel that I forgot to bring, I felt something touching my feet, which I presumed was just the fish but that thought quickly disappeared when it started pulling on my leg leaving me to hold onto a floating log that held me up enough to let me yell for help. My heart beat became faster and stronger to hear, I could’ve sworn it was about to fall off and run away.

I was practically freaking out, “is this the way I’m going to die?” that question kept going through my mind. I was almost suffocating without oxygen when I was being pulled to the deep dark bottom. I struggled to reach the surface while kicking the creature beneath me. A few more tries later, I was able to be released from its grip. I took one last look upon it to see a black shadowy figure swimming away at an unusual speed leaving me puzzled. I rushed to the surface and when I reached it I felt relieved as if I have won a noble prize but in fact, I have something even more important which is my life. I never found out what the creature was, and I’m always wondering why it would ever do that.

In the end, mysteries and eerie incidents are what create our curiosity, and without it, we wouldn’t be able to achieve so many great things in life because “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.”