Within minutes, I felt as though the air was draining from my lungs like a deflating balloon. I was walking on a patch of grass in the middle of a busy campus on a sunny beautiful day, but suddenly it wasn't so picture perfect anymore. It seemed as if the sky began to darken and the people around me faded into a blur. It was a scene straight out of a movie, and it was scary.
I sat down in the middle of the grass, people walking all around me, with my jaw sinking increasingly closer to the ground, my eyes growing gradually wider in disbelief. "I have [insert life threatening disease here]," my dad told me. Immediately my eyes filled up with tears, like a dam ready to burst.
Looking back, I still can't remember exactly what he told me after he told me about his disease. I remember the coarseness of the grass in my fingers as I gripped the ground tight with one hand. I remember the bright sun that lit up my world, even though it seemed to be crashing down.
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