Precious Moment

Another piece that I have decided to put in my porfolio was a paper that I called “Precious Moment”. The assignment was to write a paper with a blend of showing and telling, of description and explicit analysis and to re-create the experience for the reader. I think I did a fine job re-creating my experience for the reader. I had some quotes in there of conversations and I described my personal feelings. “ ‘Did you forget your lines?’ someone yelled out. I couldn’t say anything. I just wished that the ground would open up and swallow me. I was so embarrassed I couldn’t stand it. Tears blinding my vision, I silently turned around and hugged my best friend very hard as if to keep her from getting married...” This gives the reader a picture of what was going on during that precious moment when my friend was getting married.

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Precious Moment
Last year I was a bride’s maid at my best friend’s wedding. I was excited about it, but at the same time, I really didn’t want Olga to get married. I couldn’t imagine what I was going to do without her. We always did everything together. We always went shopping together because we had very similar tastes. We constantly talked on the phone for hours. Olga and I had the same friends, so we often went to parties together. Olga was a very interesting, fun, and energetic person. Everyone loved Olga. Whenever we spent the night at each other’s house, we never slept. We talked all night until everyone started waking up, which is when we went to sleep. My mind couldn’t comprehend what I was going to do when Olga will be married.

Having been best friends with Olga for over three years, I wanted to do something special at her wedding. After many different options, I decided to say a poem about our unforgettable friendship. In that poem, I wanted to express how much I will miss her and how hard it was for me to let her go. Having stayed up all night preparing ourselves for the big day, on the day of the wedding, I was too tired to say the poem. Olga insisted. She really wanted to hear me say that beautiful poem and I agreed. After all, it was her last wish before she got married, and I couldn’t turn it down.

Half asleep, I got up on the stage, all 350 pairs of eyes were looking at me, and dead silence was in the room. Everyone was waiting for me to begin. I got the microphone. Looking at Olga I slowly started saying my poem: “Deep down in my heart, I feel the friendship love for you.” The slow, beautiful music started playing and I felt a shiver go down my back. I felt every word of what I was saying, and I spoke it from the bottom of my heart. I was starting to get a little nervous, and my voice was getting a little shaky, but I went on: “day and night was not enough for us, to tell each other our secrets, dreams...” I started choking on my tears. “Oh I wish I could...” I couldn’t go on. Tears were uncontrollably running down my cheeks, and I just stopped. I heard some people laugh. “Did you forget your lines?” someone yelled out. I couldn’t say anything. I just wished that the ground would open up and swallow me. I was so embarrassed I couldn’t stand it. Tears blinding my vision, I silently turned around and hugged my best friend very hard as if to keep her from getting married, so our friendship could stay the same.

Olga tried to comfort me that our friendship will stay the same forever. I tried to make myself believe her, but I knew that it wouldn’t be like that. However, no matter how much I cried about her leaving, I had to let her go into the arms of another person, her loving and caring husband. I couldn’t imagine my best friend married and no longer sharing her secrets and dreams with me. From now on, she would be sharing them with her husband who stole her heart.