After so many years of gazing wistfully at the pool, I recently decided to brave it and take the plunge. Learning to swim was an interesting task and what was more was that it gave me a spiritual insight!
First, learning in general helps to stay afloat in life. Fear of drowning is one of the problem due to which people hesitate to learn swimming. Similarly, for fear of failure, we hesitate to dream big or pursue ambitions. We worry about getting drowned in the sea of challenges, problems and roadblocks. We think that the world is out there to take us down.
To return to the pool, I now realize that water isn’t a threat but; in fact it helps us to survive. Breathing is second nature to us; hence it is a big challenge for water to drown us. It’s kind of surprising how well our body is equipped with natural survival instincts to help us afloat and not to let us drown. All we have to do is to use that potential to keep afloat. In life, each of us is blessed with a unique survival skill which is commonly called ‘TALENT’. We need to appreciate these virtues which shall help us swim in the sea of life. Instead of getting frightened of drowning, you should drown fear itself.
Not only this much, but the coordination of hands and legs also teaches us many things. To swim, one has to push the water backwards, and more he pushes it, the more he moves forward. So it depends on you how much effort you apply, and this effort of you will make you move forward in this SEA OF LIFE. Apart from this the leg has to push the water downwards and more the water is pushed, the more is our body afloat. So to rise up, we need to tackle the problems, pushing them down.
The symphony of swimming occurs when hand and leg movements are in tandem. If the movements are not in sync, either we tend to drown or we do not move far ahead. Similarly, when we align our strengths to push obstacles are behind, stay enthusiastic and push down the negative thoughts, and then you will see that swimming in the sea of life is so much easy and effortless. This in a way is akin to our own ego becoming one with that of the water.
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