This I Believe........

I believe everyone deserves a second chance. Many life changing things have happened to people, and some never recover from this thing. We moved into our new house during my 8th grade year, and stayed at my grandpa’s house, while he was alive, during 7th grade, so I would guess that it was about the summer before 6th grade, and school had just let out for summer. Our pool was open and the weather was nice outside. My friend, Chase, and I went cruising around on my family’s quad in our back woods, which had awesome quad and dirt bike trails. Anyway, we went “off-roading” in a sense because we had left the trails. Behind the trails, in the backwoods, there is a somewhat shallow stream which was about a foot or two deep. Chase and I decided we wanted to cross the stream and go riding by Wantage Avenue. The banks of the stream were somewhat steep, and some had lips on them that your tires would get caught on, and you would flip. I decided to give it a try and tried riding up one of the banks which had a lip. It was a very bad move. We had made it all the way to the top of the bank, and then terror struck both of us. The quad flipped up at a 90 degree angle, and somehow did not land on us. Both, Chase and I, fell off, him first because he was riding on the back of the quad, then I landed on him, which softened my fall. If the quad had flipped all of the way back, neither Chase nor I would be alive today. We would have been crushed by a very heavy vehicle, and we were young and would not have been able to get it off of us. We were lucky that it didn’t tip all of the way back. It seems as if we were given a second chance to live. That is why I feel that everyone deserves a second chance.