As you watch the TV on a magnificent day, you watch a pair of swimmers swimming easily through the Ocean with comfort, and you see the enjoyment in the eyes of those people, you would like to swim to right? Going to the pool, and not knowing how to swim is a weird idea. Why is it? You don’t know how to swim, so you have a huge chance to drown. You sniff in water, is an even worser thing. However, the worst thing you can do, is to jump into the ice cold water.

I peered through the windows, seeing that my dad was having a joyous time swimming, so I thought I’d go in. As I get ready to go in, my siblings laughed at the idea that I can swim without training. I ignored them and went in anyways. As I head my first few steps into the pool, and as the wind moved the water around, it was a somewhat uneasy feeling going through my body. Then I went fully in, and then I figured it was a very stupid idea. The wind and the water chilled me to the bone, and I really was having trouble to mobilize my body out.

Then I noticed that I wasn’t going anywhere but down. Down I went, sinking to the depths of the pool. Struggling to keep my head about the water, I took a few gasps of air every time my nose came up. Up and down I went, floating like an airplane in a lake. It became for frustrating when I came up, and couldn’t stay up. As I kept moving it became even more harder to breathe, and move up. Suddenly, out of nowhere, my muscles just failed.

My body expected to go up, but I went even more down, and my lungs were already in motion, and couldn’t stop. In goes a bunch of water to my lungs, as I desperately tried to get out of the freezing cold water of the pool. But soon, my dad came and pick me up, and put me on the pool deck. The embarrassment, and the failure of not being able to swim, was a murder, and even more was that I would’ve have died if I went alone.

After 1 minute in the air, the cold water from the pool was still on my skin, and were turning to ice pops. I shivered, as my teeth were moving up and down rapidly. After one day, I caught a huge fever, that came in the last 50 minutes of class in Elementary School, and I couldn’t go to the nurse because you can’t do it within the 50 minute mark. My fever reached 104 degrees Fahrenheit, as I was no where near a safe fever. After going home, I just fainted on the lawn. And the next thing I can remember is being in bed, a bit more relaxed.

So, that’s the first time swimming, even though I didn’t know what to do. Eleanor Roosevelt said “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Yes, I did do something that I couldn’t do, but the outcome was a failure, that I seemed to want. To do what you can’t do, yes the meaning of those words are great to the creative mind.