Can't Learn to Swim Without Getting in the Water

You know how after you eat an Oreo cookie, your entire mouth is black. Then right as you smile the most attractive guy you have ever seen in you life walks by. Believe it or not but this has happened to me before. I think it's my calling in life to completely embarrass myself at all coasts.  I have learned to live with it. When something embarrassing happens to me, I laugh. That is my personality. 

So back to the cookie. We all take different steps when eating a cookie. Some just plop them right in their mouths, others eat the forsting first and then the cookie. The point is, no one is the same. I do strange things that are different form what you random strangers do. And that is alright. 

I have been on one sports team in my high school life. My coach has taught me so much and I will be forever indebted to him for that. When I was a freshman I felt like I didn't really belong anywhere. I was a drifter so to speak. Then, on a whim, I decided to join the swim team. I remember that first week of practice when all I wanted to do was give up and quit. It was too hard and I was too weak. Maybe I thought I was holding back the team if I continued to try. Or maybe that was the excusse I gave myself.   I realized that if I gave up I really would be letting down my team.  

One of Coaches rules was, Never Say I Can't. If we were to say this we had to do push ups and for a girl with no upper body strenght that is quite the punishment. I learned to never say those words and soon I descovered that if I did say them I was lying to myself. I can! Even when I fail, at least I tried and that means I CAN do anything.