Almost belonged to the ocean...

Well it was spring break of 95' and I was up at myrtyle beach with my Mom,Dad,Sister, and my sister's friend. While my dad went out to go walking and my sister and her friend decided to go shopping, me and my mom were going to go down to the beach.It was a very nice day outside, one of those days where it's so hot that it hurts to walk on the sand, Anyhoo, me and my mom decided to go into the ocean since it was to hot. While we were out there, my mom was lifting me over every wave that came along with this other dad that was doing the same with his son. All of a sudden we see this fairly large wave coming. ALl my mom could do was hold on to me as tight as she could. Right before it hit us my mom glanced at the other father and son and was hoping it wasn't going to cause any harm. BAM! It hit us, me and my mom were getting tossed and thrown in the rip tide. I could feel my mom only had ahold of my side with two fingers. Thankfully, those two fingers saved my life and we were washed up on shore.My mom and me both stood up with cut up bloody knees, and at my young age I only cared if 'mommy' was okay. She then told me about 2 years later that the rip tide was pulling me so hard away from her, and if she didnt have those two fingers on me, I would have been gone..It scares me to this day. I've never swam in the ocean since then. ~XingOver07~

It made me realize how lucky I was.

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