swimming against the current
Hello Aidan I have something to share today. It’s been awhile since I got to sleep well and woke up the same time normal people does. What I mean is that, my body clock has been set to a different timezone since I can’t remember when. Perhaps, sometime in high school, and since then it’s been like that. I’ve been suffering from insomniac. Well, the last time that I got to sleep right would be when my mom made me take sleeping pills so I could get enough rest, but then again I think that didn’t do me much good since I had fever and all that. Chemical reaction or just another way for my body to refuse and deviate from the norm? Whatever the reason is, I don’t really care. All I know is that I hate having to take all those medications knowing they’re slowly poisoning my system.
Anyway, I got to sleep for a few hours and woke up this morning feeling perfectly alright. Perhaps because last night was perfect too. My brother and best buddy aka illegally adopted sibling asked me to go swimming with them and so I did. I love swimming more than anything and it’s really good to be dipping like that in the cold running water again. The nearby pool was designed in a way that it’s like a flowing spring and I love it that way for reasons that I’d rather keep to myself and because if you’re swimming from the other end, it’d take you to the other end in lesser time and less effort. I guess it was designed that way for exercising purposes, because if you’re going to swim back from the other end, you’ll have to swim against the current of the flowing water and that’d really make you exert extra effort most especially since we’re talking about a pool here and not the sea. Swimming against the current in a salty sea water is less harder than it is in the pool, buoyancy is the key. Alright back to the topic, I love swimming against the pool current because once I reach the other end it feels as if going through so much and making it through them successfully. But, sometimes when you’re feeling too weak there’s nothing you can do but flow with the current and let it take you back to the other end.
I may have swam against the current and successfully crossed the pool today, but in life, it’s as if I’m still struggling in the midst of a hurricane…
Feb 13th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Hi Aidan,
As in the pool most of the time in life, you have to swim against the current. The struggle is half the fun, the other half is the knowledge that you pushed yourself through the current.
Don’t give up, enjoy the ride…
Feb 14th, 2008 at 2:08 am
Thanks for the very insightful comment.
Yeah let’s keep kickin balls and kick them hard!