Swimming is a wonderful sport enjoyable to all those who know how to swim. Although i love being in the water, i’ve not had any opportunity until recently to learn how to swim. My adventures within a swimming pool have remained at the shallow end. Once in a while, I’ve dared to go to the deeper end of the pool by holding on to the sides.
Once they had seen me at the deep end of the pool, they did not question me my being there because they didn’t think for a moment that a non-swimmer would be insane enough to go into the deep end without permission. At the deep end, i built up my courage to try several new things. I jumped from outside, trying my best to touch the bottom line. By keeping my hold on the stairs i tried to go down and down, but because of high pressure of the water, i had to come up again on surface.
After a while, i gained confidence and decided it was the time i advanced from the stage of mere floating to a more dignified stage of swimming, but how does one learn how to swim. I decided to ask a friend of mine to teach me how to swim. His reply seemed so simple and logical that i felt stupid for not having figured it out myself. All i had to do was jump off the diving board and return on my own. According to him, this was the quickest way of learning how to swim. Since he was himself a swimmer, i assumed he knew what he was talking about.
I climbed up the ladder to the diving board like a real professional, went to the edge and dived into the water not diagonally so that i would be near the edge but right in the middle of the swimming pool. When i surfaced, i was miles, or so it seemed at that time from the edges of the pool. i was panic and forgot how to float, went under and down thinking that it was the end, i started flinging my arms wildly in a desperate attempt to surface but i was gradually sinking and would have drowned had not my swimmer friend rescued me from the predicament he had placed me in. He draped me up on to the side of the pool and pumped the water out of my body.
The first thing i did was to thank God for sparing my life and keeping me safe and sound. The second was to thank my friend. Whenever i think of this experience my hair stand on ends and i promise myself not to enter the deep without the help of an experienced swimmer. But just as i enter the pool and again try to go to deep side of the pool now i don’t hesitate at all although is was the most dangerous experience of my life.
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