If you have ever been through a traumatic event, has it changed your life

but one day we went and it started raining, then it got windy. then we heard a burst of thunder and saw a bolt of lightning so we jumped in the car and headed home. driving home, trees were down in the street, (even big pine trees) and we couldnt get through half the streets we took with all the brush and trees in the road. apparently, we were having a HUGE storm. a tornado, flooding, severe winds and lightning. power outages. after we got home we would look out the window and see cars stranded in the road from the flooding.

anyway, the next day we still had no power, and we were bored, so we went back to the creek. the water was flowing wayyy faster, but we didnt care, it looked like more of an adventure for us. so we grabbed the raft, both got on it, and let go --- we were pulled under the water and we could barely get our heads above the water, and got washed down the creek, due to the storm making the creek water more rapid. the creek had a drop off when you got far enough down, so we got pretty scared. my roommate grabbed my arm, and then managed to grab onto a tree branch still attached to a tree and we pulled ourselves up. we could have been drowned -- or if we had been washed down far enough, the was a huge drop, about 20 feet, down to shallow concrete water.

that definitely changed my life. ill never be so reckless again lol. not to mention, to this day, everytime i laugh hard enough, i get this feeling in my nose, almost like the burn of chlorine when youre in a pool. i got that feeling the day of my last rafting/creek trip. sometimes something may seem harmless, but you should never chance it. im very grateful for my friend, and to have made it out of the creek alive lol.