It had to be the foggiest day a man had ever seen.  Despite the conditions, I still went in the water.  I felt like I was going to die out in the bottomless water that day.
            
	I was on my annual getaway to Oceanside, California.  It was a green and tranquil place that I had attended since the day I was born.  Every time I went, I always took pleasure in the sizzling sun and the frosty waves.  My beloved thing to do there was boogey-boarding.  I loved the rush of catching a huge wave and gliding into shore on it.  This had been my favorite pastime for years.  Boogey-boarding was what brought joy and risk to my life.  It was all I really ever looked forward to.
            
	On July 19, 2000, I made the worst decision of my life.  I went into the ocean to go boogey-boarding when I couldn't see more than ten feet in front of me.  At the time, I was quite young and oblivious to my parents and newscasters.  They had given caveat to stay out of the water.  I should've listened to them that day; I really should've.  Instead, I went against them and started boogey-boarding out in the perilous waters.  .
            
	I hit my first wave.  It was astonishing.  I began to have so much fun, I wasn't even paying attention to anything but the large waves that rose one after another before my miniature little .
            
eyes.  Greedy for the biggest I could find, I swam far far away.  I adventitiously ended up past all .
            
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the waves and in the treacherous surfing zone which ended on a long bank of rigid, colossal boulders.   I then stopped sculling, gazed around me, and  realized there was not a thing in sight.  Sheer water was all I could see.  An animosity for the ocean grew inside me.  I began to panic.  .
            
	I paddled away all the might that lie within me in hopes of finding my savior, a wave.  Eventually, effete, I gave up and rested on my boogey-board.  I listened to the sound of the sea.  Swish, swash, swish, swash is all I heard.  I listened and watched my life flash before my eyes.