"This is boring" I said to myself. As this thought pondered in deepest thoughts trying to produce a solution on how to get rid of this feeling of boredom. Thinking of all my interests, i found something. I found something that I've wanted to do for a long time. It felt like days, weeks, months, even years since the overwhelming fragrance of happiness and joy brushed up against my cheek like a mother would when she looks at her child in pain saying, "Everything's going to be alright honey, hang in there." This thing that I wanted to do had no caution tape on my front door saying, "If you go through with this you'll be in pain and you won't be the same person you were before." I couldn't think about something that because all i wanted to do was get out of the house and do something and I felt like an untamed monkey was caged in my head trying to break free and have some fun. So, I took it upon myself to tame the monkey and feed it bananas by going to this place called Off The Wall. This place didn't guarantee safety nor did it say I'd have fun. However, no one on earth can escape an accident.

I didn't think anything of it. I just thought that going out to a place where children can run free and do as they please can mean no harm. So, I decided to jump around on the trampolines with the other kids to see what everyone was doing. I saw front flips, back flips, corkscrews, and i was fascinated by all of it except one thing. I look across the room where about a hand full of kids were on this massive platform where they were flying over it like flying fish. I looked back to all the times I've been here previously and I could see myself jumping over that exact platform that those kids were flying over. As I was filing through my memories, one of the little kids signaled me towards him as if he were saying, "Dude! You got to try this!" Hoping my way through the crowd I noticed an older fellow about my age trying to jump over the platform like i did before. Watching this person struggling, I gave him some advice on how he can clear the platform. He didn't quite understand what I was talking about so I had to show him through an example.

It was by example when it happened, it was by not thinking when it happened, it was being care free when it happened. I asked the kids to give me some room off the platform and the trampolines so I can show this guy how to correctly jump over the platform. One trampoline after another I was thinking that I was going to do it right, but I wasn't thinking on what was going on in front of me. I felt as if the world around me had vanished from my sight, as if I blacked out free falling from heaven. Approaching the last trampoline I needed to jump on to establish my explanation, I knew that something went wrong. As I landed on the trampoline, I heard a snap that would make everyone in its range a sound, deaf. This sound was so sickening it made my stomach churn in the boiling pot of disgust.

From the moment I heard that sound and the moment I was in the Ambulance, time seemed to pull the life force from me and make everything slow down. Laying on my back, looking down at my leg, acknowledging the fact that I just broke my leg gave me a moment of complete and utter shock. The feeling of being able to jump, run, even walk, was beyond my belief. There was nothing I could do to fix this, nothing I could do to make this better, nothing I could do take back the scar I just laid upon the children watching. As the EMT guys put me on the stretcher and slid me into the truck, all I could think about was what was going to happen now. How am I going to explain this to my parents? How long before I can do anything again? What's it going to take to fix it? All these questions in my head, but I focused on one thing- I'll do anything it takes.
Explaining how I broke my leg seemed to turn people's ears because this accident was just a freak accident. It didn't make any sense for a person who drinks more milk than water to break a bone, especially a compound fracture.

There wasn't caution tape, yellow flashing lights, or yield signs to tell me that I shouldn't go today. Telling me I should go with someone another day. Telling me to just hold on a second and think about what else there is to do today. The best way to learn how to stand is by falling, free falling.