Frozen Moments

Frozen Moments

By: Danel Rivero

February 12, 2011

English Composition

Engcom101

Instructor: Edward Yoo

Have you ever had a moment in life when it feels like the entire world and everything in it stops, just for a moment? I have many moments in my life like this. I refer to them as my frozen moments, because when I think about them I can recall every small detail as if it happened only moments ago. It feels to me like these precious memories are frozen in time, or at least my memory. There is one specific frozen moment that I cherish greatly, as it is the one event in my life that has changed the core of who I am. As cliché as it may be, I am talking about the birth of my son. This one moment in time that I will share made me want to be a better person.

My life before a child was to say the least adventurous. At twenty years old I enlisted in the United States Army. Within five years I traveled to forty-two of the forty-eight continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Germany, Italy and Saudi Arabia. Somewhere, during all the traveling I got married, I am pretty sure it was in Kansas. After getting married, I was still what you might call a free spirit. I had plans to travel the rest of the world, sky dive, rock climb, scuba dive, you name it and I wanted to do. There was one thing that was not on that list, having children. Nope, that was definitely not for me that was until the stick turned blue. As sure as day, all thirteen pregnancy sticks, blue as the sky. I think after the shock wore off I felt mostly fear. How could I be someone’s mother? How could I do all the things that were still on my list with a kid? These are the questions I that rambled through my head for nine of the longest months of my life.

So there I was, twenty-six, in a hospital delivery room in Sanford, Florida, pushing and screaming for nineteen very exhausting and excruciating hours. The room was full of nurses and a doctor. My husband was there, doing his...