Clip Of My Childhood

     

Rainbow Falls    

I feel like everyone had those memories or certain fixations from their childhood. These remind me a lot of the movie "Inside Out" and how the main character Riley has her core memories. These memories usually shape you as a person. But, these memories I'll write about aren't that important.  Some of my fixations I don't think shaped me into who I am. But, they're just very vivid memories that I still have retained since I was five to ten years old. I think what I find so interesting about these memories is the fact I still remember them. So, what makes them so important that I remember them? I'm really not sure... the brain works in amazing ways and keeps the most "random" memories. What if they're not random at all?

    On a warm summer day, my mom took my older sister, Jocelyn, my older friend Amber, and me to a water park called Rainbow Falls. This park was my favorite water park at the time. They had a lazy river, big slides, a water playground, a diving board, and this obstacle course that you had to cross by stepping on lily pads. I remember just having fun with my sister and friend when Jocelyn said, "I bet you can't catch me", to Amber. Jocelyn took off running and Amber started running just behind her. I didn't want to stand by myself so I decided to take off running as well. My sister ran into the bottom part of the water playground and Amber was just behind her. I remember my wet feet hitting the ground as I was trying to keep up with the older girls. As I approached the turn into the playground I remember it being almost silent outside. Do you know what those long, plastic flaps are that hang from the ceiling usually in the deli or something? Well, in the playground there were a lot of these flaps from the ceiling. I remember running through them and then turning another corner. Right then, I slipped and my leg almost went upside-down and the top of my foot scraped across the wet cement. I remember the pain I felt and I looked on the top of my foot and it was bleeding. I remember callinf for Jocelyn and Amber but no one came for a bit. Then when they finally came they ran to get a lifeguard. The lifeguard took me to the office where the first aid was and he started to clean off my foot. I remember the lifeguard saying that he liked the color of my nails. 

    That memory definetly taught me not to run in water parks anymore. So, I learned a good lesson so I hopefully never do that again. I also still have that scar from that day and its one of my biggest scars. I think its also a funny story because despite everyone knowing not to run by the pool I still did. It was just one of those kid moments. I'm kind of happy that, that happened to me and I think it was not a core memory, but just a life lesson to a child.