Past narrative

As a child, I used to be afraid of water, but knowing how to swim was a rule in our family. One summer when I was six , my mother took me to the swimming pool . There was a special swimming pool for the kids and hopefully it wasn’t that much deep for me as I was tall, but we were soon transferred to an other pool which was deep! Although I had my swimming ring , I was still afraid. I never enjoyed the days on which I had swimming class, because of my fear and also of my humiliation, and that was suffering. One day I decided to face my fear, regarding that the guards would save me in case of drowning. Unbelievably I was able to paddle my feet and little by little I was enjoying the touch of water on my skin. That was the time when I first realized to run towards my fears and not to run away from them.