Cody

Unlike many people, my life has been unusually weird over the past years. For most people, activities such as riding a bike, fishing, or even playing music would seem normal, but for me these activities have made my life an adventure beyond no other. So instead of telling you how great it is, I’ll actually start from the beginning and tell you the whole story!
 * The Adventures of Cody Tuck **

Once upon a time, on a hot Saturday morning, I was visiting my grandparents at a family reunion. My father and I thought it would be a great idea to bring my bike over to my grandparent’s house to learn how to ride my bike with my grandpa. Everybody crowded around me to watch as I hopped onto my bike to get ready to take off. When I was ready I said “GO!” and my grandpa pushed me as hard as he possibly could. I was scared at first, but after a second I became comfortable and started to take my hands off the handlebars. Out of nowhere a tree popped out of the ground in front of my bike and before I could react my bike hit the tree so hard it broke in half. My parents rushed to the scene, yet for some reason they looked everywhere and couldn’t find me. They then heard a whisper from the tree and a slight knock from the inside of the tree itself. They replied with “Cody is that you?” with the response “what do you think?” with laughter following close by. They soon discovered that I had hit the tree so hard that I had been engulfed in the tree itself. It took rescuers three weeks to cut me out of the thick tree, and the only way I survived was by eating the sap from the inside of the tree.

A couple of years later after me and my parents had moved to Granville County, my father and I found a huge pond in the back of the woods that could’ve been mistaken for a lake! Every weekend my father and I would secretly take trips to the huge pond to go fishing and camping. One night my dad thought it would be funny to leave for a couple of hours in the evening to see how well I would do on my own in the wilderness. At first I was scared of being in these isolated woods by myself, but then I thought I would go fishing to calm myself down until my father got back. As I got to the large pond, I was putting down my fishing gear to get ready then I saw a huge fin, as tall as a tree, moving across the water. I assumed I was just seeing things and decided to throw my lure in, but right when my lure hit the water it jerked so hard my fishing pole began pulling me slowly towards the water. Then out of nowhere a huge carp jumped out of the water, and this was no ordinary fish for it was longer than the largest tree you have ever see and wider than a dam itself. I then saw my hook attached to it and before I could react I had been jerked into the air and had flown onto the back of the monstrous fish! It dove under water with me hanging loosely from its back and suddenly it became dark as I was running out of air. A split second later the huge fish, with me on its back, jumped out of the water and onto the shore. As I rushed to get my breath back, after a hard hit from me falling on the ground, I looked around and noticed that the gigantic fish was gone. After I had caught my breath and gotten some energy back in me I began to walk to camp to find some dry clothes to change into, but before I could even take a step I heard a rustle in the bushes just a couple of feet away. Before I could ask if anyone was there a strange man with scraggily clothes and the bluest eyes I had ever seen appeared before me. After we had been staring at each other for a couple of minutes he began to walk towards the water. Before he dove in he told me one thing, and that was to never give up on a dream. After that he dove into the water and a couple of seconds later the huge fish jumped out of the large pond, and while in the air he gave me one wink and after that I never saw him again. Later in the day my dad arrived with important news. He said that a marine biologist went unstable near this area while working with a genetic serum. The scientists friends said that he always had dreams of being a fish and that he was always obsessed with them. On the way home my dad asked me while I was smiling so much and I told him that I leaned a piece of important advice, never give up on a dream, for one day it will come true!

The next year, in sixth grade, I was taking a science class by a teacher named Mrs. Nobles. She gave us a project near the end of the semester to write a piece of literature on our views about ecology. Of course everybody decided to just write a poem, but I didn’t want to be like everybody else so I decided that I would write a song. So for the next couple of days I worked strenuously on the ecology song and the music to it as well. On the day for presentations I was the very last to go because I had made a music video while everyone else had live poems to recite. As I cut the video on and dimmed the lights everyone got quiet and began to watch the video I had worked so hard on for the past couple of days. After the video was done and over with I cut back on the lights and asked everyone what response they had, but before I the words could come out of my mouth my classmates and teacher began to scream and hug me saying “Masterpiece, Masterpiece!”. My teacher kept me after school that day and said she knew some music producers that she wanted to come down here to check out my video. The next day a couple of men and women in suits came down to the school and watched my ecology music video. They came to me later that day and said they wanted to produce my music video and make it a hit. Of course I agreed and after school we headed down to their music studio to record the song again. A couple of weeks later the song hit the radio and became an instant number 1 hit! It stayed on the top of the charts for a couple of months and became known as the number one song in the world. That summer I became known as the only musician to win a Grammy for an educational music video! After that year the song drifted off, just like most songs do, and I went back to my normal teenage life, but after all of the excitement I remembered the advice the strange scientist gave me two years ago. I never forgot his advice and I will carry it with me for the rest of my life!

After these adventures my life had changed for the better and I had been inspired to never give up on things and to make something out of myself. I hope these strange, but exciting stories have somehow turned your life around in the right direction and have inspired you to make something of yourself. If there’s one thing I can do to help you in life, it’s to give you the same advice the blue eyed man gave me, and that’s to never give up on a dream!

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