Everybody has been in a situation where they didn’t know what to do. I have been in a situation where I didn’t know what to do. My situation was, I was in third grade and didn’t know what to do, because my teacher fell to the ground holding her chest, and I didn’t know what to do.

I was in third grade and I stayed after school for help. At the time, my teacher and I were the only ones in the class at the time. She was an older teacher; she had blonde, grayish hair and was larger than most people. She was just sitting at her desk when she clumped over, grasping onto her chest. If I had a cellphone, or even knew what I was doing perhaps I could have helped her. I was frozen, not able to move not able to speak. I just stood there and stared at her, confused and terrified. I could feel sweat drip down from my face from what I just witnessed.

I was afraid, my parents taught me to call 911 if you ever need help but I didn’t even have a cell phone at the time. Even if I did have a cell phone, I’m not sure if I’d even be able to call 911. I felt like I was standing there for hours, but realistically it was just seconds. A teacher walked into the classroom with a stack of papers and realized what happened and rushed over to her. He was a man in his late thirty’s, he was bald and wore glasses. I remember it like the back of my hand, he dropped all his papers and they splattered on the floor. The man ran to her and pulled out his phone, he called 911 and started to perform CPR. At the time I wasn’t sure what he was doing. He performed CPR until the paramedics came. They put her on a stretcher and rushed her out of the classroom.

I silently slipped out of the classroom, not making a single sound. I walked down the hallway; all I heard were my footsteps. Step by step I slipped past everyone who was there. I exit the school and began my track home. It was like any other day, only this one was one that I would never tell anyone. When I got home my parents were also home and they asked me how my day was. I never responded to them and just slipped past them; straight into my room I was exhausted. They came in and asked me what I wanted for dinner, and I told them I wasn’t hungry.

Later, I learned that she went to the hospital and eventually recovered from the incident that occurred in school. In life, we can learn to live your life to the fullest and to never regret anything.