In my last swimming class session, my tutor called me to get a swimming test as an entrance test for lifeguard classes. I was very surprised, and the bad part of it is that I had smoked a cigarette a few minutes before it.
However, he asked me to swim the width of the pool using various strokes, ans specifying a time limit for each of them. I didn’t do any of them in the appropriate time. I thought I have failed and can’t participate in the classes. However, the tutor of the lifeguard course was standing there (I didn’t know it’s him when I was swimming) and watching me, and he agreed that I can participate in the classes.
I didn’t expect to achieve enough skills to join the lifeguard course in this short time. So, I’m very excited.
But I have two concerns: First, I have a shoulder pain and I’m worried if I participate in those training sessions, this pain will get more serious. Each session is two hours long, which is double times longer than my usual training sessions. Second, I still smoke and I’m worried if it will hinder my swimming in long sessions.
I think I shouldn’t worry much, should I? My shoulder’s pain either will be gone soon or will get more intense and I’ll stop swimming. In case of smoking, I can reduce/stop smoking if I thought it’s causing trouble. The result of neither of them will be my death, and I can continue to live. But if I don’t participate, I’ll weep for this road untraveled, weep for this path left unseen, bam bam bam… (Linkin Park, Roads Untraveled)
Nothing more… Stay tuned till the next episode.
P.S. I want to write my wintertime sadness, but it’s not a public matter to discuss and I prefer to stay quiet about it. You, as a random reader, prefer this too, I assume.