Personal Narrative: My Lifelong Dream

Life was amazing. My lifelong dream was about to come true, I was about to become a mother. My husband and I had been trying for so long and just when we were about to give up it finally happened. We were so excited when it finally happened and I couldn’t wait to share this journey with my family and I have shared every moment with them. I was about 37 weeks now and I wanted to see my family once more before my life became consumed by a baby. I never thought that my life would be changed forever by getting on this train. I had called my family about 5 hours before I left to let them know that I was all packed and ready to go and that I was excited to see them. I had decided to travel by train because it was safer than travelling by plane or so I thought. I also didn’t want to drive because I’d rather just relax on a train then spend eighteen hours in the car. My husband dropped me off at the train station that night and he made sure that I had everything that I needed and then he kissed me goodbye. I made my way on to the train and quickly found my seat. I sat down next to a nice old gentleman and we talked for a few minutes before the train departed from the station. He told me about his family and that he was going to Miami to go and see them because it had been three years since he last saw them. I told him that I was going to

The train that I was on had no positive train control (CNN) and that “the system that controls traffic was down for maintenance” at CSX (ABC News). I was also upset by the fact that this “was one of several fatat incidents involving an Amtrak train in the past few weeks” (CNN) and only now are they looking at the safety of the railways. As I was watching the news my husband and my parents walked in. They rushed to my bed to hug me and that’s when the doctor came back in. He explained everything to them and then he took me to