A FISH IN THE WATER

Hi friends

For a few days now I have been feeling really sick and I just generally feel my mental health being very low. It’s either am lost in space or I am so bored and tired and sleeping.
I have been having high temperature and just generally not in the mood for daily activities but still i have to show up to life.

Yesterday my partner was already fed up of how inactive and passive I have been, I could tell he was, so he suggested we go for a swim. Well if there is one thing the water does to you, it definitely cheers one up.

So we got ready, packed our towel, sunscreen, body oil and headed for a private pool. The water was so clean and we were the only swimmers there.
That I was thankful for because I enjoyed the peace and quiet for a long while before some private school kids came for their weekly swim lessons.

When they came it was an instant change of environment, noise, shouting, laughter and excitement filled the air. Although I was enjoying my peace and quiet alone with my thoughts and making videos with my husband, I still appreciated the presence of the kids. I watched them in amazement as they swam so effortlessly and beautiful. Some of them had already gotten the drill of how to swim and they were definitely already friends with the water.

I watched as one particular girl struggled with her fears, she seemed to be the only one out of all twenty kids at the pool that was still scared of the water. She knew how to swim obviously because the coach was so sure she could do it, he just has to work on her fear, after a few morale boosting here and there, I even found myself screaming along with the coach

you can do it babygirl

She eventually loosened up a bit but not totally, it would still take a lot more practice to get her to trust the water. As for me, I am a shallow water swimmer, I took a one week swimming lesson one time in 2018, and when the coach tried to teach me to swim in the deep ends I refused. So ever since I only have confidence for the shallow end.

The coach at the pool yesterday noticed I wasn’t swimming into the deep ends like my hubby and so after the kids left, he said to me

madam it’s like you are scared of this side o(the deep ends)

And I was like *yes o I can only swim that way (the shallow ends)

He then persuaded me to trust him to teach me to swim in the deep ends, well after seeing what the little children could do in the deep end I was already challenged.

if small children can swim in the deep ends without fear big girl
Like me must learn too

I thought to myself.
So I obliged him and after a few tutorials on how to dive and how to beat my fear for the deep ends, I did it. I was able to successfully swim in the deep ends without the floater and without the help of the coach. I was super proud of myself.

I left the pool feeling good and great about myself. I felt better mentally and physically and my mood definitely lightened up. Woke up still feeling sick today so I went to the hospital for some checks and I think I would be fine.

How was your day guys?

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