There are many things I admire greatly and wish I could do , but no matter how hard I've tried, it just seems like they aren't coming my way.... At the top of the list is swimming.
Growing up however, I found swimming as an optional life skills, for whomever is interested and not a compulsory one. People around me weren't interested in swimming and there was no beaches, streams or rivers within my vicinity so swimming was never a top activity for us; almost like we felt it was solely for the television shows. Water for us, was just something we take our bath with.
Swimming Is always a beautiful exercise to watch, seeing how swimmers navigate the water and swing their arms like fishes and the subsequent waves of water coming from the strokes they made is always appealing to watch.
As I grew up, I had a change of mindset and knew swimming wasn't just a recreational exercise but rather a survival skill.
This was what made me develop interest in the exercise and I started going to swimming pools. My friends will always tell me that it's very easy to perfect and enjoy but it's just not coming by for me.
Funny enough, they said the first thing is to be able to hold your breath inside the water for a while, let's say for 10 seconds which was never a problem for me because growing up, we always practiced that, lol
Dipping our heads into the drums of water for a while and seeing who lasted longer.
But guess what? That's the end of my own advancement š
Aat any point I try to make a stroke, I automatically find myself going down and sinking as if I can't sustain the float and I'll be struggling at the bottom of the swimming pool and before you know what's going on, my mouth will be filled with water and my eyes will be very red (because it has seen a lot,lol)
So what I do now is just to go to swimming pool with my friends, change to my swimming chunks and then stay in one end of the swimming pool admiring swimmers doing the job while I enjoy the calmness and serenity that water offers.
So, if I find suddenly find myself in water and needed to swim to safety, it's a death sentence for me because I know that I can't swim... I'll just hope I get saved by the nearest fishermen.
Maybe it's because I've not had a good tutor but I've tried learning from my friends and wasn't successful but above all, I think Fear is one of the reasons why I haven't learnt.
Whenever I enter the swimming pool, I'm always reminded of my neighbour who went for swimming and was drowned and his body was never recovered.... That's always the flashback I have anytime I want to swim and it kind of puts a restraining chain on me.
So yeah, I can't swim and I know why, and I'm willing to fight and overcome the whys I can't swim and learn how to swim so that I, too can experience the peace people talk about when they float on their backs staring at the sky. And most importantly, I want to be able to save myself or even someone else if I ever found myself in a situation where swimming was the only way out.
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Thanks for reading and have a nice day ahead š