My deepest fear would have to be drowning in water. As a child, I took swimming lessons for two years. After those two years, I felt like I had mastered swimming so I stopped going. I had always enjoyed swimming in pools, oceans, rivers, and lakes. It all went downhill one hot, summer day. I had been invited to a pool party. As always, I was enjoying the party and swimming around. Then, my friend Ricky came up with the grand idea that we should all race from one side of the pool to the other. It was at least four of us and the were all bigger, more experienced swimmers. I was at about the same place as the other until we hit the middle of the pool. It was then that I tried to come up for a breathe of fresh air. Somehow I was not able to do it and before I knew it, I was slowly sinking. I was releasing air through my mouth because my lungs were starting to ache. Yet the more air i released underwater, the lower I was going. I started panicking and my lungs were giving out! I could feel myself slowly blacking out. Then I felt a strong grip on my underarms and I saw my friend Ricky was trying to help me up and out of the pool. They had all gotten to the end of the pool and noticed that I was not anywhere around. So Ricky figured something was not right and saw me underwater. He helped pull me out of the pool and I was terrified. I never got into a pool again that whole year. Since then, I am extremely hesitant about getting into water. That experience truly traumatized me. Now if I am ever asked if I know how to swim I automatically say NO!! Since then, my greatest fear has been drowning.
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