Stone In My Eye

Most kids I knew back then, including myself, usually didn't have anything for breakfast. It was all about just getting up in the morning, preparing for school and then making it on time. I made sure that I got there early rather than late because I hated standing by the gate and having one of the teachers or older kids ask me questions and write down my name(bad record).

The year was 2013, I was in my last year of primary school education (grade 7) and so I did some things abit more differently, like walking around the school more often to acquint myself with the students and hanging with almost everybody. I remember I had been one of the few students that were elected as student representatives and so were my two close friends, it was like the dream team. The first few weeks was awesome, the kids noticed you when you walked into a room, they asked for help and they did as they were told. I bonded more with most of them.

About a month later I grew tired of the whole thing, I decided to drop out. I told myself that I was no leader, how could I lead others if I didn't have a voice to even speak up for myself? That was a dumb decision, now I realise that I would've learned a lot if I took that on as a challenge but I was a coward and that's why to this day, I am still dealing with that issue.

Anyway, one day my friends and I went to play on the netball court as we used to during P.E. Our then P.E teacher was a tough lady who made us do squats like crazy. Honestly I didn't even know what they were called back then, just that 'knee-exercise' I'd say.

Just after the bell rang, all the girls hurried over to the classroom to change their clothes, I spoke with a close friend of mine as we slowly walked. She suddenly thought it was a smart idea to pick up some sand and throw it at me, to annoy me of course and then I would get mad and chase her around. Well, her aiming was horrible and somehow a little stone got into right eye.

I sunk to the ground and covered my eye as I felt the discomfort spread inside my eye. My friend panicked, she ran and got some water for me to rinse it out but that didn't help.

It was just the second period of the day when that had happened, by break-time my eye was red and teary almost all the time. I didn't make a big deal out of it but the thought of having a little stone in my eye freaked me out. One of my friends tried blowing the stone out but it just went deeper and deeper, until we could no longer see it.

A few days ago I thought about that incident and all the other times when strange things get into one's eye. Things that cause so much pain one moment and within a couple of minutes/hours it just disappears. Not really disappears but I guess it goes ahead and causes more damage?

hearts, Queen

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