Do you know how to swim? Hahaha, today's topic is something more relaxed, let's talk about swimming and the act of swimming! If you were in the open sea, would you survive? If you had to swim to the beach or to a boat that could reach you, what would happen? Well, I think I would be dead! I only know how to swim in pools, and even then, I've never been in a deep pool, the so-called Olympic pools, so I don't even know if I could really swim in one, since I usually go to adult pools, but I can reach the bottom. With that, I think we can conclude that I'm only a swimmer in those types of places.
Now, if my survival depended on it, I don't know. Would someone who only swims in pools where they can touch the bottom be able to swim in the sea? If I fell from a boat or something like that, would I be able to manage in desperation and trying? What I imagine is that maybe I could swim a little, but I would get tired, cold, and my arms and legs might fail. So, I don't know if I could float to rest or anything like that. In fact, I have no knowledge of how to act if something like that happened.
This shows once again that we have to learn some things for survival, especially because I'm a father, I have children under my responsibility, so what if they needed me in a scenario? What if at some point I have to do something to save them? That's the complicated and complex part of life; we know we need to learn certain things for emergency situations, but we don't always have the time or the courage to start something new. It's like those New Year's resolutions we always make about starting something new and things like that.
So in my case it's really a bit of everything, I don't deny that. I'm lazy, I lack time, I lack money to invest in this and other things, but I know I have to be aware that this kind of thing can be essential to save my life and the lives of my family, of whoever is near me. Of course I really want to learn, but I have my difficulties, my thoughts, my crises, all of which end up making me put it aside, as if it weren't a priority in my life.
It's like learning some kind of fighting style; I'd love to know how to fight something, whether it's capoeira or jiu-jitsu. I think it would be good to know how to defend myself because, as I said, I have people who depend on me, and I think that somehow makes me responsible for learning something that, if necessary, I might need to use in a complicated moment or an intense emergency. Of course, I've never been one to fight or struggle with anything or anyone, I've never been into that, but things change, and it's necessary to think about our family and children.
Anyway, I need to learn to swim properly, in the sea or huge pools, to test whether I can really do it or not. Until then, I hope I never really need to put my body to a critical test, because if necessary, the chances of everything going wrong and me drowning are enormous! For this reason, I always avoid anything dangerous that involves water, because I know that if something bad happens, I'm in serious trouble. So, that's it, sometimes you need to practice something beforehand, try to learn something before a big adventure, because otherwise things can go very wrong.
