Personal Narrative: How To Swim In High School

Learning Something New While reflecting on a time on which i grew my brain; I am drawn to a memory, one in which I could not swim. Yes I was old enough to remember because it was not until high school that I learned how to swim, and I only learned because I wanted to become I didn't want to be embarrassed by my friends in High School. When growing up I lived in the hottest city in the hottest state; Chandler, Arizona. While there sounds like many fun water activities to do living there, I was someone who enjoyed reading. When I ran out of things to read I would read the newspaper, and even at a very young age I would read on a daily basis the dangers of swimming and the death toll every year in water related deaths. This in fact made me fearful of swimming, so much in fact I would never deter away from the shallow end or the walls of any pool. I infact never taught myself how to swim. …show more content…
As I reached late adolescence I began to force myself to learn, I would read books on buoyancy and the humans ability to float on demand. I factored in every possible outcome such as age vs. height vs. depth. My muscles in this process would not remember what it was being taught. After my parents breaking in and paying for my lessons with several instructors I was sure, this was just not something I could do, swimming was just not something I could truly be taught. I gave up; or more so my parents gave up on me, their 12 year old who refused to learn to