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| September 2, 2024 Monday 10:15 pm Prompt Blogging Birthday Bastion: Tell us about an earth shattering Life-or-Death situation in your life. What happened, how did it change you, if at all. I was 10 years old. Our town’s recreation director planned an outing for children from the age of 10 to 16. It was a trip to a lake for the day with a picnic lunch. When we arrived I noticed an area where swimming was allowed. There was a thick blue rope stretching parallel with the water’s edge. It was shallow for new and beginning swimmers. Fifty yards further out there was a simmer’s platform. I saw teenagers out there laughing and jumping off and climbing back on. On the land to the right of the lake was an in ground diving pool with low and high diving boards. I saw very young kids jumping off. They went in and moments later bobbed above the surface. I remember talking to another wader in the shallow end. I told her that those kids jumping off looked like they were having a blast. With that, I waded onto the shore, walked toward the pool, determined to jump in like the others. And I did. The thrill of jumping ended with my body sinking to the bottom of the pool. I saw the person who waited behind me appear above and swim to the side. I could not hold my breath. I looked up and saw the sun shining brightly. Many pairs of legs were beyond my reach. I felt a pressure in my chest and lungs that tightened until I thought my whole head would explode. I opened my mouth, water rushed into , my mouth and I was suffocating. I felt myself being grabbed and p ulled fast follow by being rolled over onto the cement. The lifeguard swept my throat which scraped and hurt. He pushed on my stomach and water gushed out. I started coughing and tried to stand up. The guard said whoa not a good idea. A collapsed back down and gulped in air. Air never tasted so sweet. After the dizziness waned I stood up. I was woozy and my entire body was tingling. I took notice of the man who saved my life. I smiled and he said something about how dangerous it was to come to the diving pool when I couldn’t swim. My dad built us a 3 foot deep pool out of cement blocks and plaster. I could swim but not in water over my head. I was perspiring profusely, wrapped in a towel, and only then I felt embarrassed. I had drawn attention to myself in a negative manner. The lifeguard confirmed that when he said, “Young lady, if I was not here you would have died. Do you know how bad that would be for your parents? Did you think of that when you came here and jumped when you had no business here. Go back to the wading area and don’t ever come back to my pool again.” I was forever changed. I briefly went over to the other side in the moments between looking up at the sun and feeling myself pulled through the water. I proceeded to never do anything dangerous. The most risky thing I did was ride the Matterhorn roller coaster in Disneyland. I was never a strong swimmer and more often than not did not go in the water when near any pool or other body of water. tracker |
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