LOST IN THE FOREST
The story is about how i survived a night when i got lost in the forest while being in a camp with my friends. We were planning this camp for a while. We were waiting since winter.I was super excited for this day .Because I knew that we all going to have so much fun spending time together.
After 3 months of waiting we are finally going camping today. Since childhood I loved camping. I used to always go with my dad so I was kind of prepared for it I knew what will I need to bring with me and what to do in a different situations so basically I knew survivor skills because of my dad. My dad started to teach me how to survive when I was 5 and kept teaching me every time when we went to camp. He would show me how to set a fire or find food or even how to react if I see some wild animals because it was normal thing to see an animal in the forest. Even If I haven’t camped for 5 years since my dad died I felt confident I didn’t feel any fear. So I was basically prepared for everything. I packed everything and went to the meeting point. When I finally met everyone we head out to the forest and strangely I felt a bit worried for no reason. But I didn’t really care about that I just tried to focus on having fun with my friends. After a long 5 hours of ride we finally came to the destination and started to unpack everything. We assigned the tasks for everyone we were 7 people there so everyone splited to 3 groups first group went to make the tents another two started to set up the place for it to be comfortable and the other to just helped everyone, no one wanted to go for searching woods because they were scared so I went by myself. Everyone knew that I was educated for this so no one actually worried about me. I wasn’t worried to. I was the person who everyone trusted so I just grabbed some kind of a knife for cutting the wood and took a lighter in case it will get dark so I don’t have to struggle finding my way back to the place where we stay. I don’t know why but my worriedness kept absorbing my head. But I thought maybe it is because my memories with my dad was enchasing me everywhere. So I just focused on finding the woods and go back.
After I couple minutes I finally find the exact amount I needed for the fire so I started to go to the place where everyone was, it also was getting darker so I opened my light and kept going. After 20 minutes I couldn’t find anyone anywhere, It was so strange because I knew this forest till every single detail. I couldn’t just get lost I literally grew up here. After hour of walking trying to find the way I still couldn’t find it.
I got lost.
I didn’t want to accept it but deep down I knew that I lost my way so I have to do something. I wasn’t scared I knew that I know every exact thing that I need to do if I’m lost in the forest. So firstly I searched for a good place to stay till morning then I set a fire so I can see something. I needed to stay somewhere over night. I was feeling very tired so I just set the fire and because I haven’t got any tent or some blanked with me and it wasn’t really safe to stay here over night I climbed to the biggest and the tallest tree I found and just laid to the safest and the thickest branch I have found and fell asleep. When I waked up in the morning the fire was exctinct. I was so hungry but I really needed to find the way back because everyone else must have really scared for me. When I started to search for the way back I also searched for some kind of food like some berries or ect because it felt unbearable I was so hungry .I tried to find the way back for 3 hours but I didn’t really achieve anything and also couldn’t find anything to me to eat. But then I realized I need to find way to the lake because our car was parked there and after 5 min of walk I could find my friends. So I started to search the lake. And it was easier than I thought it would be. I found the car and the lake I just needed to walk 5 more minutes. But I was so exhausted and hungry and thirsty so I couldn’t find any food but there was a lake so went to it and drank the water out of there the lake was the cleanest lake in the world so I wasn’t even worried about getting sick because my dad told me once that you can drink the water out of here because it’s the cleanest and the healthiest water in the world. So after that I just walked and found my way back everyone was searching for me just Jessica and mike stayed there incase ı will find my way back. So after this journey we spend good time with my friends, everyone got scared but we had so much fun the next two days. So Im telling this story to you dad because I want you to feel proud about me, It wasn’t that dramatic and risky but just wanted to tell you that I did everyting you taught me once and I wanted you to feel proud about me.
Love you dad!
After I told everything to my dad I stand up after sitting next to my dads grave, putted the flowers to his grave and just walked home.
