My Journey - Personal Essay

My name is Urkle Olus Oxygen. I'm going to tell you about a hair raising adventure I had about 157 years ago. Me and my best friend CO2, were in the Structural Bases of Life Research Centre working on a Cray supercomputer, trying to figure out why those huge monstrous humans need us to live. The computer had been working for weeks and it still didn't have the answer. Then CO2 had one of the scariest ideas I have ever heard in my entire life. He suggested to boldly do what no Oxygen or CO2 molecule had done before, to make a record and map the path and make a report on why the human race needs us to live. I suggested that his idea could be tested on someone else, but he insisted that his brain wave was one that only we could execute because of our experience. I know that I personally have travelled through 1,204,621,057 humans but it was always accidental. I would be travelling on my way when all of a sudden the Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon, Water Vapour, Carbon Dioxide, Neon, Helium, Krypton, Hydrogen, Xenon, and Ozone gasses (all are commonly known as AIR) started to move towards this black hole. Of course we all started screaming and then we closed our eyes till we came out of the black hole again. But this time CO2 and I would keep our eyes open and write down the horrendous experience we had. But this experience I was about to have, took some school work. I had to learn how to write, spell, and to go into depth on the anatomy of the human body. After 16 years in school I graduated with first class honers and my title was a "hyper supergenitic counter clockwise Oxygen atom."

Since I am telling you about what happened to me, I think I should go into depth about myself. If you are not a moron, you would know that my atomic number is 8 and my weight is 15.9994 and I make up about 20% of , I forgot the name.........OH!! Earth's atmosphere. My boiling point or the temperature in which I turn into gas is -182.962. Pretty chilly hey. If you are a person who likes science you could tell me that liquid oxygen is magnetic and can be held between the poles of a strong magnet. Cool!! Anyway, I got a little side tracked.

A few days before I was to go on the mission, I took out life insurance, just in case what I was about to see gave me a vasospasm, or what we call it, a heart-attack. I also went to a psychiatrist because I was so nervous that when I tried to stand up my knees would knock together. The trauma I was experiencing was incredible, so incredible that it even amazed the leading doctors at that time. There was no cure, the doctors said that I was "self destructing" my "sub atomic nucleic structure" and if I didn't get myself under control, I would collapse because of exhaustion. I took dozens of sleeping pills to get to sleep. In the morning, I had to drink at least three cans of Jolt (twice the caffeine) to keep me awake. Around lunch time, I would get out