For some people, learning something new can be a horrendous and horrible experience. I am that kind of person. Since I was three years old, I wanted to learn how to swim, but I was timorous of the water. Even though I knew that the decision would make my dreams come true, at the same time it was a completely challenge, a hard thing to do. However, my desires of being a good swimmer were stronger than my fears. As a result of it, I decided to learn it because I realized it was a good physically exercise that could help me became healthier. What I did not realize was that learning how to swim would help me to become a more selfish person. Unexperienced situations always …show more content…
He was so lucky in my opinion because I was having a difficult time learning that technique. The teacher took a kickboard and gave it to me. I had to hold it while one of the other students was splashing off by herself on it. The next activity was learning how to kick for the breaststroke. Everybody did it correctly and I was so proud of myself. However, the activity was not done. Student by student, the teacher hold us on a buoyant while she draw it through the water and we stroke .I was tired of doing it by myself while the rest of the class wasn’t. I was traveling on the kickboard into one side and the other side of the short end of the pool. I was happy for it.
After a few more weeks, when I seemed to have learned how to move my legs correctly.
It was time to learn how to use my arms. My teacher taught me the arm strokes. Things were getting more complicated than before. I had more than one thing to aware of. I started to feel that
I was not having expectations of success. However, as soon as I expected, everything started to be positive and I was swimming. It was one of the lovely moment I ever had when I was child. It was a feeling like if I were flying. I am not going to forget it. Learning how to swim was not easy for me, but my desires of making a dream become true were bigger than anything else. My persistence helped me a lot to figure out that there is not impossible thing to do. In my opinion, the world fear does not exist. For me, fear means