Swim Lessons

When I was a kid, my parents completely neglected to get me swim lessons. I wouldn't say that they were bad parents. In most respects, they were outstanding ones, as a matter of fact.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Author: Albert Einstein

They took us to sports games, bought us art supplies, encouraged us to read you name it and they did it. The swim lessons for kids, however, Were lacking. As a matter of fact, I never had a single swim lesson until I was an adult.

By then, the damage was done. I was terrified of the water. I couldn't figure out how anyone could swim. I didn't want to go, and I would make up any excuse to avoid outings to the beach. Adult swim lessons, after all, seemed so demeaning to me. When every 13-year-old that I had ever met knew how to swim, I didn't want to be just beginning to.

Finally, a friend bought me YMCA swim lessons for my birthday. I Was actually a little bit irritated about the swimming classes. I had no desire to take swim lessons, and I thought that it was a bit manipulative to get me a birthday present that I had no intention to use.

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi

Nevertheless, I did what he must have predicted that I would do since I had the swim lessons, I decided to take them.

To tell the truth, I had actually been secretly thinking about swim lessons for a while at that point. Although I didn't consciously wants to, I did watch swim videos whenever I had the chance. Some of these were even swim DVDs that claimed that they would be able to teach you how to swim like a pro. Needless to say, I never actually tried them. Taking swim lessons off of a tape would have been a dangerous choice. With no one to correct you or rescue you if you got into trouble, how could you keep yourself safe?

In the end, the swim lessons were a success. Although it took me a few months much longer than many of the other students soon I was out of the beginning class and into an intermediate swimming class. Advanced swim classes followed, and soon I was on a recreational amateur swimming team. Although it is too bad that I never got swimming lessons when I was a kid, I am glad that I finally learned how to swim. I didn't know what I was missing out on all of those years!

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

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