by Titaniumxvx Sat Oct 02 2010, 22:46
Dream on, opponents! This is my submission to the contest:
It's not all hilarious or quite outrageous as I usually would do. It was a tiny incident but it had a great impact on me so I thought I would mention it here about how humor has the power to bring the joy in a time of pain.
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The Grand Smile
It was the Fall of my fifteenth year on the Halloween of 2008.
I was attending a "Dance for Diabetes" fundraiser at my good friend's house where she had invited about 150 people for Halloween. I had been awkwardly swaying on the corner of the dance floor until the atmosphere got too hot and crowded so I retreated outside to the pool backyard get some fresh air.
I was drifting near the pool when I saw a younger looking girl of twelve standing near the pool with her Father. Her Father was administering insulin injections into her arm as she was wincing. She was a short stocky girl with dark hair, her face was looking very pained. I felt embarrassing witnessing that intimate moment so I decided to leave the pool. Too late, however. Her eyes meet mine and then she looked away, embarrassed to be seen getting shots.
I tried walking around the shrubbery to get back inside the house away from the pool. However, clumsy as I am, I tripped and fell intp 3 feet of water of the pool. The girl and her Father stopped and stared at me as I yelped in surprise and struggled against the water, being a horrendous swimmer. "I'm drowning! Give me a floatie! Someone! God help me!," I kept yelling, flapping against the water. "Calm down!", the Father yelled. "I'm going to die!", I whined in agony, still hysterical. The girl offered me a hand and I grasped the hand for dear life, pulling myself up, drenched and soaked.
"You weren't drowning.", the Father briskly informed me as I spit out water. His eyes twinkled with amusement.
Then the girl started to laugh, peeling out great laughter from that small vessel of a diaphragm. I started to chuckle too at my stupidity. Then, the Father joined in. The three of us laughed together, enjoying that small time. It was a moment of beautiful tranquility, one idiot, one daughter, and one Father laughing in the night.
That autumn of 2008 was the best Halloween ever because I got a smile out of a girl with diabetes.
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