Last night I filled up my water bottle and was walking through the living room on the way to my room to get a good night’s rest. I decided to take a big gulp out of my water bottle, the straw on the cap makes it so seamless to sip out of…usually.

I took a big gulp and all the sudden I had this jolting sensation in my body, almost like a unexpected hiccup that sounded a bit disgusting. my lungs felt a startling sensation as if water was tricking in, my eyes went wide, and i suddenly felt a mixture of surprise, fear, and remembrance of another recent time sipping on water went wrong…I was choking on yes, water..

So splish splash, on the floor the water inhaled went, splattering an impressive amount. “Did I really just sip that much water?” “Wow it’s hard to breathe right now, it kinda hurts” I thought to myself. I hear my housemate’s concerned voice, “are you okay?” I hear the movie stop upstairs, “is everyone okay down there?”

Within a moment, my housemates are standing by me, comforting me, one of them cleaning up my water projectile with a dish towel. In that time, my body went from feeling out of control and watered down, to slightly embarrassed and joyful, we laughed, and were glad to be together, it was like my housemates to come to the rescue and it was like me to laugh it off. This is how we all returned to joy from a time I choked on water.