My heart to swim competitively burned out when I was seventeen - though I swam another year (my senior year in high school). Then 33 years later I got back in the pool, and like many others, discovered that I had a renewed passion to compete. That seems in some ways strange to me, so I've been thinking about why I compete. I've reached the conclusion that I really wasn't done when I left the pool at eighteen - rather, I just needed a breather. (That was one huge oxygen debt!) I wonder if one day I'll be done competing, or if this passion is a lifelong one, like the passion for fitness and health that my swimming serves regardless of whether or not I compete.
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I will give my thoughts on this subject which are twofold. First I wonder why quite a few quit swimming between 16-19? I think that those who swam for many years only quit because it does not fit into their lifestyles after HS, college, careers, or just trying to find out what they are going to do and swimming is not a career. It is amazing, but not shocking to me, that after we find out what we are going to do, swimming becomes a part of our life again because we enjoyed it so much and it brings great satisfaction to us. I am 29 and have joined many affiliations, free mason, shriner, ordained minister(online), and am a member of Mensa. None of these has brought the joy of swimming!!! I attend two things that make me feel better about life and myself, church and swimming. Life is to short too not be happy and enjoy the things that make us happy.
GOD LOVES THE POOL AND SO DO I!!!!!!!!!!!
SWIM ON!!!!!!!
I will give my thoughts on this subject which are twofold. First I wonder why quite a few quit swimming between 16-19? I think that those who swam for many years only quit because it does not fit into their lifestyles after HS, college, careers, or just trying to find out what they are going to do and swimming is not a career. It is amazing, but not shocking to me, that after we find out what we are going to do, swimming becomes a part of our life again because we enjoyed it so much and it brings great satisfaction to us. I am 29 and have joined many affiliations, free mason, shriner, ordained minister(online), and am a member of Mensa. None of these has brought the joy of swimming!!! I attend two things that make me feel better about life and myself, church and swimming. Life is to short too not be happy and enjoy the things that make us happy.
GOD LOVES THE POOL AND SO DO I!!!!!!!!!!!
SWIM ON!!!!!!!
