In my adult life, I've been shocked at the # of people (black) that I have met that cannot swim. Now, I'm not expecting anybody to be an olympic swimming pro. Unless you do it for exercise, there is nothing fun about swimming laps in a pool.
But I love the ocean, *some pools,* and lake trips. Last summer on a lake trip a couple of the chics came with their hair pressed and curled and I was like errr - your just going to mess it up. "I don't swim." Huh? What's the point in going on a boat trip if you don't swim?
Growing up, I went to water parks, pools the ocean. Heck, recently I went snorkling. How lame my life might have been had I not known how to swim!
When I was dating ex, I told him that he had to learn how to swim (and/or tread water) before we had children. Why don't people feel one with water? If you can't swim, why haven't you learned? Do you plan to learn one day (presumably before you have children)? Or do you feel like you can avoid water like the plague for all of your life?
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I didn't learn how to swim until a few years ago but I love the water. I was always in the water as a child and even took swim lessons at an early, just couldn't get it for some reason.
I've done jet-skiing, kayaking, snorkeling, you name it before I took lessons again. I was just the chick who brought her own life jacket :-)
I had a bad experience in the water when I was younger and I find it hard to get over that fear of drowning. I do plan to learn in the near future though because I want to do a mini-triathalon.
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