Like many families mine would love to go to the pool in the summer time. Only I would dread when that decision was made. As a child I liked the idea of getting in the nice cold pool it was just the deep bottom that caused me true fear. For an adult 7ft was manageable as they are able to swim, but for a child it was a big risk.
Even though my parents would assure me they wouldn’t let me drown, the thought wouldn’t leave. Drowning was a big fear for me, going to the pool was a nightmare. The water clear as day but the bottom to me was an endless drop. Many times my family would try to get me into the pool but it would only end in me crying. So for a long time I never learned how to swim or even tried to learn.
As I grew older and grew taller, my fear slowly became smaller. I finally learned how to swim when I was 12 and didn’t feel like the bottom was so endless. It’s funny how as a child we see everything bigger than us, only to grow and see it’s really not. Like many of our fears in life, when we surpass them we see how little they truly are.
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