Just Float

Yes, I swam yesterday for the first time in my life. Did not really swim per se since all the time, I was simply trying to just avoid sinking. It would do well to say I learnt how to not sink yesterday because let me say the truth, I did not really swim. Just going into and out of the water for lack of air.

While everyone around could quiet carry themselves and float on water, I simply looked with amazement at this water fond human beings who could swim. I wish I could swim like some of them, but then I just continued sinking and unsinking myself in the water.

I am not trying to explain my bad swimming experience but trying to relate it to a lot of the things that happen in our lives every day. Some of the things are simply easy for others, but for us, it takes a while. It takes a while for us to even understand what the basics are. But the only thing we should keep doing is to keep floating, one day you would swim.

I had to console myself that at least for the first time, I was able to take away all my fear and simply go for the pool, something I have never done. So this is progress, even if it is a tiny one. But then, success comes very late sometimes in the game, so you have to keep playing to be better and better.

So in whatever learning endeavour you currently are in now and it seems you are genetically modified to fail at it, give it time, you would float such as I want to badly float on water now. Your situation might be far greater than my swimming experience, but the concept is the same. Try, and try again, for even the greatest do face challenges.

And when you face challenges, you evaluate your striking method and see how you can make it better, learn from the mistakes of yesterday, enrich your knowledge base and give it another try today. It would definitely pay off one day.

Just as it takes a while for a bird to fully learn to fly, so does it take successful people time to fly or float. So give it time and just float. Just float on the surface, water would carry you. So said my mates at the swimming pool. 

Until then, do not give up and have a great day. Thanks and God bless.