Traumatic Experience Narrative

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In July, one of my best friends joined the army; he graduated September 24 from his basic training in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Even though I was extremely proud of his undertakings, I was extremely distraught about the situation I was soon to be involved. I had to get on a plane to get to Kentucky. Of course I suggested catching a train, the slower but safer route; however, the plane tickets were already purchased, there was a “no money back policy,” and I couldn’t find anyone who could afford my ticket and take my place on this expedition. So the decision was set, I had to go. Everything seemed tremendously wrong the days leading to my time of departure; my cell phone didn’t work and I had to find a spare to use, I…show more content…
I looked down at my freshly painted white tip toe nails and boarded the plane as though I would never see the gray concrete and yellow lines beneath me again. As the plane finally began to take off, the plane rocked steadily for the first five minutes as it blasted into the sky, then it began to tremble as though we were in the mist of an earthquake. First, I had the nerve to sit next to the window, knowing that I was afraid of heights, and then I had the audacity to look out the window. I never realized how far up we were until I got to the point were the houses where starting to literally look like play doll houses. The roads looked like thick lines on a map, the trees like planes of grass, and the people; I could barely see them at all! So to keep my mind away from it all, I decided not to look down but to look at how beautiful the clouds were. The clouds felt like a quiet storm to my soul, and the solution to my problems. But that feeling erased from my mind instantly because we then started running into potholes.. My stomach felt as though it was flipping through circular hoops and dropping down steep hills with every pothole that we encountered. Each encounter was one more step closer to me losing everything that I had eaten before I boarded the plane. I just felt like my stomach couldn’t manage the constant flips, turns, and drops it had to come across, nor could it or…show more content…
I was happy that my feet got to meet concrete once again, something I wasn’t sure was going to happen. The plane experience actually wasn’t as bad as I thought. Looking back to how I acted before I got on the plane and when I got on the plane, I felt like my experience was all in my head. I was nervous and scared to death only because that was what I allowed myself to feel. Had I been more excited about the trip and less frantic, the experience could have been better from the beginning then what it was. So I called my sister as soon as I got to the hotel and told her about my experience. She asked me if I was scared, I just had to lie, and I told her no. The plane ride was as exhilarating as I though it would be and I couldn’t wait for the plane ride back home. I even asked her to book our trip to the Virgin Islands by plane instead of by cruise. Now I am anxiously awaiting another plane ride, but this time I’ll know exactly what it is to look forward

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