when i was much younger than i am now i went with my dad onto a frozen lake to go ice fishing we found a good spot to set up base to catch fish under the ice with a fishing pole and a little purple fishing lure with a bob on top as bait for any fish who wanted a little bite at it while waiting for any fish to come and bite the lure i talked to my dad but since i was near the age of four there was nothing really to talk about with him we had to wait many hours in the presence of the freezing cold lake that made people's skin crawl with chills no electronics anywhere near the spot we picked so when my dads phone finally died he had nothing to do eventually he left to go use the bathroom which was a horrible idea to leave a four year old next to a large open water hole in the lake as i looked around the place i was standing it all looked very strange to a four year old i stared longingly into the large deep blue open hole into the ice being unable to comprehend all of the feeling rushing at me with me flowing through my brain at the quickest moment going so slowly yet so fast i couldn't speak i was lost in a trance then i lost my footing and slipped in the hole in the ice i may have been only four but i was smart enough to know that my dad would come back at anytime soon so i grabbed the pole that was stuck in a metal pole and hung on for my life my dad came back and saw that the bob was bobbing but didn't realized that his kid was missing so he grabbed the pole with excitement and reeled in what he thought was going to be a giant catfish i still don't know how i survived that day it will always be a question in the back of my mind. m
