My Autobiography

Chapter 12: As Time Goes Bye-Bye

Before turning old, I really want to travel to Hawaii, where my Mother and Father had their honeymoon. My Mother always told me how nice it was there. Seeing all the volcanoes and cute little shops filled with Hawaian treats and collectibles made her very interested and even told me how she bought a little too much during the trip, but was so worth it.

I already went to an amusement park, but I really want to go to Disneyland before I get old. In a way, I feel like Disneyland is the only place where anyone, whether you're 20 or 85 years old, feel like you're 10 years old again. I was a big Disney fan when I was a child, and I still even watch some of the older shows like Good Luck Charlie or Jessie to this day, even though the shows are no longer producing more episodes. It's very nice how so many old television shows allow you to revisit your childhood so many years later.

When it comes to saying goodbye to people, places, or things, my only goodbyes that I have made were to my Mother and to King's Island. When saying goodbye to my Mother at such a young age, it never really processes the full amount of pain and sorrow until you see that she's actually not there with you anymore. It took me such a long time to make sure that she was actually truly gone, and maybe wasn't faking her death in a way. That was the way of my denial stage. But, sadly she is truly gone, and I have done my goodbyes as well as my family. It'll always get a little easier year by year, but it will never become too easy.

Saying goodbye to King's Island wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I didn't have the best experience there and it really just made it hard for me to actually enjoy the fun things that the park had to offer. I never got my first thing of water until nearly eight hours after arriving there, the temperature peaked at 100 degrees two hours before I got my water. My neck was burnt. So burnt it looked like I was cooking bacon on the back of it. I nearly had a heatstroke and fainted, and I was being pushed around like a ragdoll by the small group that I was with. It wasn't a good experience, and I don't know if I'll ever come back. So for this goodbye in specific, it wasn't too hard to actually say goodbye.