Learning How to Swim as an Adult

Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?

There are so many things in which I am late doing in life. One of them is learning how to swim. Luckily, there are swimming courses for adults in the city where I live.

The pool has become the playground for me. Every swimming lesson is a playtime for me.

I enjoy every minute I spend on the pool. Especially now that I can swim pretty decently and no longer terrified of a deep swimming pool.

When I swim, I find myself to be in a flow. I am so focused on swimming that my worries and problems just disappears. It is just me and swimming.

I do not compare myself with others in the class. It is not a competition. The only competition we have is with ourselves. And we cannot rush progress.

I am glad that I took the decision to learn how to swim.

The Happiness From Learning New Things

Better late than never. I am late in so many things in my life. Learning how to swim is one of them. I am now in my 40s and I have just started to take swimming more seriously.

When I told a friend that I cannot swim, he told me that the swimming centre in the city where we live offers swimming lessons for adults. He also took swimming lessons there as an adult.

I am grateful for that information. After a while, I enrolled myself. And I started my swimming lessons last December.

My First Marathon Experience: The First of Many to Come

A week has already passed and I do still feel the same elation I felt last week during the marathon event. This year, I was not only a spectator of the event, but a participant, albeit just a quarter of a marathon.

Running 10,55 km within an hour is hardly a remarkable achievement. I did not really transcend my limitations. Nonetheless, I have had this profound sense of fulfilment, because I have managed to break my record.

From time to time, I run 10 km. My average time when running the 10 km is 1 hour and 15 minutes. Managing to complete the 10,55 km within an hour is for me a new record. So in that sense, I was successful.

After all, in undertakings such as this one, your opponent is not the people around you, but yourself. The goal is to beat your own record and be better than yourself yesterday.

It almost impossible to describe how i feel that day. I felt so elated, happy, and calm. My taking part of this event is almost a religious experience. The experience was rather spiritual and I am not exaggerating.