November 22, 2024

As a kid learning to swim, I was scared of the deep end. One day at my friend Freddie’s house, I fell in the deep end and nearly drowned. Luckily, a teenage boy jumped in to save me. After that, I stayed in the shallow end, and when my friends enticed me to venture over my head, I refused. But eventually, I could swim anywhere in the pool. It just took time, practice, but most of all, will. Without the will to swim into the deep, even until this day, I would be confined to the shallow end. However, I know some people who never learned to swim—they were afraid of the water and closed their minds to learning. Some avoid being in and around water to this day.