Swimming is a form of exercise one has to carry out just to make the body look smart. I love watching swimming competition, but partaking in it does not fit my star. People from my community always go for swimming, but I would sit at home waiting for when they will be back.
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Swimming can make someone's body lighter and stronger. This is why most people do embark on swimming. I have tried it once, but I failed just because of my strength and doubt towards it. Seeing my friends swimming do give me morale, but taking it seriously was not my call.
I can't remember embarking on swimming since I was born. The only day I have done that was when I was still little. I was just observing my mates jumping in the lake swimming while I was just sitted on the lake bank.
I never wanted to jump inside the water, but something was pushing me to jump. Likewise, I tried hard, but then I love the way they were jumping inside the water. A woman who was inside a canoe jumped from the canoe inside the water. I was surprised to see a woman swimming just like a man. This moved me to try, but then I was so afraid. I walked towards the lake and was still observing. One of my friends who was inside the water yelled at me, “jump, and you will like it”. I observed the water critically and discovered that it was shallow.
That shallow shadow gave me another morale to jump. Something was still pushing me backwards. I never listened to my mind but was listening to my urge. I flew inside the water. My friends laughed at me, but then the water that seemed shallow became so dip. This took my mind to physics. My legs could not reach the base of the water, instead I was sinking gradually. I began to drink the dirty water seriously unnoticed. My friends were still laughing, thinking I was just playing.
I never knew that a young man was observing from a distance. Before anybody could observe, I was out. Although, as all were happening, I never knew until I regained myself.
Swimming is good, but to those who knew how to carry out that act. Most people are just like me, who cannot swim. Since that day, I never for once, drew closer to the river to swim. I do observe from afar. If not for that young man, I would have not been alive to see today.
When I got home that day, I never allowed my parents to know about what had happened. They would have finished my buttocks with lashes.
To go to the swimming pool alone has been a problem to me. I can survive not swimming, even if my mates are going for it. My experience is so sour and something I cannot do without thinking of .each time I see people swimming, my mind kept going back to those days.
Swimming is great, but not for people like me. This is why I do t like taking boat or canoe.