can you swim?

India
May 31, 2007 11:36pm CST
I know this does sound like a ridiculous question as most people i know can swim but i learnt swimming pretty late in life so much that i still can't dive and stay away from deep waters. what about you, can you swim ?when did you learn swimming ?
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@wonderful1 (2075)
• China
3 Jun 07
I can't swim, and I am afraid of water. I often stay the beach and enjoy the sunshine. But sometimes I will envy people who can swim freely in the sea. They are like free fishes. I like freedom, but I have to stay at beach. I want to learn swim, but I have to pay for expensive expense, so I delete my idea. I have no job in real life, so I have no stable income every month. I have to save money, then I can live a better life. Now I reached the minimum payout on mylot, but I don't know how to withdraw money from paypal. Can you help me?
• India
3 Jun 07
There is a withdraw option in your paypal account. You can request paypal to send you a check and there will be a charge of 5 dollars for the same, so it is better to wait for a bigger amount and then withdraw because you will have to pay a fee of 5 dollars for the transaction. If you have an account in a bank in the US, you can transfer the paypal balance to the bank account free of cost. hope this helps.
• Indonesia
8 Dec 07
I can swimming but not in dep pool, so what is that means? I can't swim actually cause I just can stay in the deep pool by holding the bank. I have learned to swim since I was in junior high school and untuil now the result wasn't satisfy me much.
@gradyslady (4054)
• United States
26 Sep 07
My brother and I both almost drowned when we were younger, two different times too, it's crazy, but after that we never wanted to learn how to swim.
@izathewzia (5134)
• Philippines
27 Sep 07
Honestly, I dunno how to swin until now. But i do wanted to learn it. Because during outings, I envy those people who are enjoying their swimming skills while I was just sitting there watching them. I use deeper to wet my body and sometimes soak just to get the feel of it. lol But I do wanted to acquire the skills of swimming.
• United States
2 Dec 07
This may sound strange, but even though I was in the Navy for 5 1/2 years, I still cannot swim...lol. The best I can do is keep myself afloat. I was almost drowned when I was a child and have a grave fear of water coming over my head. I am also clotsraphobic, so you know what being under water does to me. I freak out!! Even with all this being said, I love the water, but I am just very cautious of the things that I do in it and how far I go in a pool or in the ocean.
@hopejordan (3561)
• Australia
29 Oct 07
hi there serenidity i do know how to swim but i dont you swimming much but my kids love swimming i might take them in a weeks time cause Australia is starting to get hot soon it is still spring time. thankyou for your discussion
@ctv101103 (859)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
unfortunately, i can't. i think in our family, only my dad can swim. he tried to teach us when we were kids but we didn't learn. i tend to panic once i don't feel the ground/pool's floor under my feet. but i would like my daughter to take swimming lessons so she'll not be like me... when it comes to swimming, that is. :)
@franziska (410)
• Italy
1 Jun 07
Yes, I can swim. I learnt when I was 12 years old, but anyway I don't dive and also I stay away from deep waters. I like very much to swim, it's my favourite sport.
@joimarquez (1836)
• United States
1 Jun 07
i can swim but only where my feet can reach the sand or if its in the pool, only on the sides where i can just grab the side of the pool and pulll myself up when im tired. If youre gonna throw me in a deep water...i'd probably drown coz i'd panic.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
3 Jun 07
My mother couldn't swim so she made sure all of the children in our family learned how. As the years have passed I am sure I've not kept fit enough to be a very good swimmer but I think I could save myself!
• India
8 Jun 07
No, I don't know how to swim. I'm always interesting in learning it but i don't know why i'm not getting or sparing time for it.
@laiyongjun (1336)
• China
2 Jun 07
no, this is not a fidiculous question. as for me, this is a good question. i have just post a topic about swimming of my story. actually , i can't swim.anything i can do in the water is going down without life ring. when i was a child, my father taught me how to swim but i couldn't do performance well. my father is a good swimmer and also good at teach others swimming. one day, i found my ear painful and asked to doctor. the doctor told my father that i was not fitted for swimming due to my ear is quitely easy to be entered the water.therefore my ear have a problem. from then on, i have never gone to swim again. today is a terrible hot day, my roommates will go to natatorium which is a huge place in my campus. it is a pity for me. hehe. i feel a little bit upset.
• Philippines
3 Jun 07
I'm not a good swimmer but i can swim. my first swimming lesson when i was a childhood when me and my friends are gathered to have a swimming. by that time i was so afraid to swim feared to drown the water and no would gonna help me. but my friend told me that i shouldn't be to swim that's only a first time you afraid and you will learn. so with his powerful convincing approach i'm now able to swim although not as good as the others but i can swim now. the lesson that i've learned that i should not be afraid of water and relaxed and be courages to face your fears with these you will be able to do what you want to be...
@forisuru (217)
• Sri Lanka
7 Jun 07
Dear Friend, I Still can't swim. But i thnik it is a must to learn in our life. Thanks
@melanie652 (2524)
• United States
1 Jun 07
I can swim. I don't really remember when or how I learned to swim. I have a vague memory of having swimming lessons when I was very young. My hubby can't swim. He doesn't like deep water either. He won't get in the deep end of a pool or dive or anything like that. He stays in the shallow end!
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
1 Jun 07
My sister and I like swimming and we often go for swimming but both our respective husbands don’t know how to swim. So they decided to learn swimming. After they had few attempt they gave up and till now they couldn’t swim lol.
• Canada
1 Jun 07
I am weird when it comes to swimming because although I can swim , I often tell people that I can't because although I know how to swim and can swim , I can only swim in water that is not over my head . The minute the water is over my head , I panic and forget what I am doing . I almost drowned a couple of my friends when we were younger and we were jumping off the pyramids , they all told me the water was not over my head and to jump in , the first couple of times I jumped in , I was fine but the next time I jumped in , when I went to feel for the bottom and realzied it was not there , I panicked and almost drowned . I am very nervous of water and have lost two uncles to drownings and don't beleive that I will ever be able to overcome my fear of the water .
@a_ce_e (1422)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
Yes I can swim. I learned it on my own once i go with my friends on swimming pool without the knowledge of our parents. I am almost drowned but i find a way to save myself and i did. That's the time i knew how to swim. That was when i was 9 yrs old. I can stay in water for hours before but now, i don't think so, i can easily feel too tired already.
@Cassy1976 (796)
• Australia
1 Jun 07
I did learn to swim as a child and was never really confident, it was only as an adult that I actually got my confidence and can now swim well enough to save myself if I had to!
@guolong (57)
• China
1 Jun 07
I like swim,but I am able to swim only about 30m .when i learned swim at 12,i swim in a river on the east of my villege.I can remember that time ,i love that time.