Swimming, An Essential Survival Skill .

A week ago, I watched a short movie clip, the scene displayed how a young girl was able to escape a deadly situation by swimming and it got me thinking, because if I find myself in such situation and swimming is the only way out, I won't be able to escape, that's because I can't swim and it's disturbing to me.
Swimming, apart from being a sport activity is an essential skill for safety and emergency, and it should be as compulsory as the Mathematics we were taught in secondary schools, because the chances of mathematics saving your life might never come, but the chances of a swimming skill saving your life or another person's life could happen at anytime, because the world is covered by water, and unexpected situations can always occur .

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Swimming is a survival skill and a necessary kill for everyone, the world is largely covered by water, about 77% of the world is covered by water, and the possibility of finding yourself in a place surrounded by water is actually high , and its painful and shameful that someone like me would not survive that situation ,because I have zero knowledge about swimming, I'm actually scared of water, but now I'm getting to realize that I can overcome those fears.

In a case of emergency, the fact remains that, if one can't swim, the only option is drowning, and drowning would only lead to death.
If I'm in an emergency state and swimming is the only way out, I would actually drown , writing this prompt is making me understand that I have been careless with my life to a large extent , I have had to opportunity to go out and swim, especially for fun, which could also help improve my swimming skill, or atleast overcome the fear of water by watching others, but I have been ignorant about it .

I stay in the Southern part of Nigeria and there are large rivers and we are prone to flood and heavy rain , I see these things daily and it's actually bad that I didn't see the need to learn how to swim until this point, I have had the thought but I haven't been so serious about learning to swim, and I can't tell when I would need to save a person, or myself with a swimming skill, because that's the only way to avoid drowning.

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And one of the amazing parts of acquiring this skill, is the confidence it would give you to know you can survive in water, just like you do in dry land, the moment I learn how to swim, I would really pride on it, and also it's a skill that you only need to acquire one's, it's not a repeated or continuous lecture.
At this point I think I'm going to add swimming lecture to my plan for the upcoming year.

I'm stopping myself from learning how to swim, because I don't have an excuse, and learning to swim is an essential part of safety and survival.
I don't think I have thought about the importance of learning to swim, until now, that I had to think deep on it important.
The fear of water can overcomed, the time to acquire a swimming skill can be created, all it takes is determination and time, and I can afford both .

Thanks for reading ♥️

Vanilla 💗