{"id":2390,"date":"2017-04-13T20:04:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T20:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2017-04-13T20:04:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T20:04:02","slug":"wary-of-water-mw-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/how-to-write-a-memoir.com\/?p=2390","title":{"rendered":"Wary of Water MW 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wary of Water <\/strong><\/p>\n

We were fishing in the spring in a fast mountain stream with family friends. I was six years old and watching my \u201cuncle\u201d fish. He hooked on to a real beauty, three pounds at least.\u00a0 Ever the helpful child, I walked into the stream with the fish net.\u00a0 The fish raced across the stream into the deeper water wrapping the fishing line around a root wad.\u00a0 I could clearly see the fish, so I raced towards it.\u00a0 I vaguely remember hearing my name being called over the rushing water.\u00a0 The fish was right there.\u00a0 The water deepened and the rocks were slick.\u00a0 I reached for the fish and was pulled off my feet and dragged under the water.\u00a0 All went dark and noisy.\u00a0 I tumbled and bounced along the rocks until my uncle pulled me out – a spitting and a sputtering.<\/p>\n

I was thoroughly soaked, cold and shivering from both the cold and the event itself. I was placed by the campfire to dry out and warm up.\u00a0 The shivering continued even after I had warmed up.\u00a0 The shivering would come back over the next few weeks whenever I thought of my dark tumble in the stream.<\/p>\n

It was decided that I should learn how to swim. Swimming lessons were the prescribed method.\u00a0 I now had a \u201chealthy\u201d fear of water and voluntarily going into water over your head just seemed silly.\u00a0 I would sit at the edge of the pooling freezing or brave the shallow end.\u00a0 Most of the class was younger than me and did not seem to have any fear at all \u2013 how crazy was that.\u00a0 One instructor believed in the sink or swim method and chucked me into the deep end.\u00a0 I sunk.\u00a0 I came up sputtering and got hauled out.\u00a0 I gave up on lessons.\u00a0 That is to say, I would not leave the house or get in the car to go.<\/p>\n

Over the years, I realized that many activities occur in or around water. So I worked on overcoming the fear on my own.\u00a0 I taught myself to swim, not gracefully, but with forward motion at least.\u00a0 While I am not at peace with water, I have called a truce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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