Happy Saturday friends and community. Hope we are relaxing and eating something delicious 😍💕
Talking about hobbies I love ❤️, I could say swimming 🏊♂️ comes last due to how never took it so seriously while growing up. Although I tried to learn how to swim from a very tender age because of the opportunity I had then as a young child who always visits her grandmother.
The first time I entered a large and very deep water was during my primary school days. Then my mother and I had to travel to the village to visit her mother who is my granny, and it turned out we have to stay some weeks because she was old and needs care. And because my mother was her only daughter apart from the male, she was very attached to her mother. And since in the villages then the streams were the only source of water 💦 before people stated to dig Boreholes .
So when ever my mother and I goes to the stream I will see little children swimming and having fun 🤩. Its was indeed thrilling because large streams are not like the city 🌆 swimming 🏊♀️ pools. And one of the days we went to the stream to wash and fetch some water I was forced to enter into the water to swim with other children but never want to go towards the deep areas. So gradually I started picking interest to learn more about swimming . But I was at the same time so scary 😦 to really explore like other kids who has mastered the act.
And after we got back to the city I became very eager to learn swimming properly but not until my secondary school days through excursions we usually take. Sometimes the school will organize with a park that has swimming pool for excursions where those in charge of the swimming lessons will teach the children how to swimming by wearing them swimming guards. And several times, we also took excursions to the beach 🏖 to see how larger body waters looks. All we do is to just stand by the edge of the beach 🏖 water and watch the waves 🌊 move the water towards our legs.
Then I started visiting the swimming pool on my own as an adult but always very careful because of how scary 😟 I was. And as time went by, I started swimming around areas that are not deep still because of anxiety. Today I have mastered so act of swimming and can really explore in the swimming pool 🏊♀️.
My only problem is can I be able to swim out to safety if I found myself trapped in a large ocean 🌊 sea? I don’t pray to be a victim of such a scary situation because I have watched some movies where many who are even perfect in swimming was not able to make it to off shore safety due to how large the sea 🌊 is, as they got exhausted 🥱 or that the cold in the water got then frozen 🥶
One needs to be very careful around swimming and water areas because even while its a full of fun activities, its also very dangerous no mater how professional one has become with swimming. I make sure to always go with my children 👦 to the swimming, watching them while they are swimming and keep cautioning them on the danger in water and water areas.
This is my response to the #hiveleaners featured content for week 191, edition 03, tagged “THE SWIMMER”.
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