"Just keep swimming."

Today's been a really exciting day. And I shall tell you why: I can finally swim!


It's a (liiiiiittle bit) shame for me knowing that I am now 18 years old and I just learned how to swim. But that's okay because later I met a man at the sports club's swimming pool and found out he learned about how to swim at 57. Amusing, right? "It's better late than never," really suited us lol.

So I made an appointment with my friend; she's so kind that she wanted to teach me swimming and so on. Well, I have all the rights not to be able to swim up until today before I learned how. When I was a kid, about 4 or 5 years old, my mom and auntie took me and my siblings and cousins to swim and I drown in a 2 meters deep swimming pool in a hotel. It quite gave me a trauma so that I don't want to learn to swim. I was always afraid of drowning and I couldn't get over it.

At first my friend taught me how to properly breathe while swimming. Then she taught me how to float in the water. This part, really freaked me out. As someone who was afraid of drowning I always found myself wanted to step on the bottom of the pool. I struggled to beat the phobia out of me. Along the way she also taught me to move my hands and legs and all those swimming tricks.

Just keep swimming. -Dory, Finding Nemo (2003)

She always reminded me not to be afraid of drowning. I had to swim because if I didn't, I'd drown for real. I just had to keep swimming.

And at the end of my private swimming lesson I finally could, yeah, swim a little; better than none at all lol *cheering myself*

I had to admit that the hardest part was to beat my fear of drowning. Second hardest part was, I had bad coordination. -_- I couldn't move my hands and legs properly and it happened every time I had PE lesson. It's embarrassing, tho. I had to keep working on it.

 

Actually, um it's a bit weird, but when my friend told me to just keep swimming I thought of this Finding Nemo's quote by Dory, the cutie-funny-optimistic blue fish. I was thinking that in order to move forward I had to keep moving, keep moving my limbs and keep swimming; or else I'll just float around and never move anywhere, even drowning.

Thus, I think I'm not really afraid of drowning again. I really hope that I can swim just right and maybe have some fun with my friends instead of only watch them swimming when we're at the swimming pool.