SWIMMING? OH JUST NOT FOR ME!

First and foremost, i love swimming as a sport, especially when it involves others and not me in particular. The immense joy i feel when i watch swimming competitions on TV is one like no other, what fascinates me the most is the different set of skills these swimmers use when swimming, to give them an advantage over their competitors. I really love watching swimming competitions on TV. Swimming was a topic I enjoyed greatly in my early years in junior secondary school, it was a reoccurring topic in physical health education almost every new session. I was able to enjoy P.H.E as a subject because we had the best teacher teaching it in my junior secondary school days, I didn’t only love the subject as a whole, i also score high marks always. Swimming was fun to learn in the four walls of the classroom, but very enjoyable and entertaining when one is involved…

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I love swimming, but only from afar. I can’t swim to save a life, and that’s mainly because I can’t swim. I have tried to learn it many times from @burlarj , but then learning it at this old age of mine was just too difficult. At first, when Burl offered to teach me how to swim, i was happy and eager to learn, and that was because i enjoyed watching him swim with ease whenever we go out to enjoy ourselves. I didn’t know how difficult it was until i drank almost a liter of water upon my first attempt to swim. The second attempt landed me red eyes, it was at this point I realized swimming wasn’t just for me. After then, i gave up completely on learning how to swim…

Whenever Burl and I go outing, and we decide to swim, i don’t do much. I just stay at the nearest side of the pool, play with the ball in the pool, while moving with the safety tube in the pool for beginners. I do that while watching Burl enjoying himself, burl is a fish. He is very good at swimming, i have watched him escape a near death experience with the pool sometimes in the past. He was able to maneuver the situation because he was good at it, and most importantly he handled it with utmost patience and understanding. I didn’t even know what was happening to him in the water until he handled the situation and swam back to the shore, where he narrated his near drowning experience to me. I found it funny but then i was shocked and grateful nothing happened to him. All this happened when he swam to the deepest part of the pool...

After what happened to burl, I became more scared of learning how to swim. Whenever i try to learn, the scene where he was struggling to get a hold of himself in the water appears in my head and i run for my life. I have had so many near drowning experiences, even with the safety tube on me. This is to tell you how i am not so cut out to be a swimmer, so why force it? Lol…

Can I swim? No. If I suddenly found myself in a water and needed to swim for safety, will I survive the ordeal? No. But then i will never be in a situation like this because i don’t go near any large water body or swimming pool, that way something like this won’t even happen, not to talk more of fighting for survival…

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In conclusion, i don’t think I’m ready to learn swimming right now. I am not cut out to be a swimmer. I prefer enjoying others doing the swimming with me at the shore, than participating in the swimming itself. Nahhh, I don’t want that, i am not interested. Maybe someday, when i have enough courage, i will learn how to swim, but for now i’m good…

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