do you know swimming?its one of my biggest regrets-i dont know

It is a pity to hear that you are still trying to learn swimming. I have the different learning experience from you. When I was seven or eight years old, I started to play with other boys in the pond near my house. There were at least three or four ponds in the village. Also there were some trees in the ponds. I remember some days I always stayed in water in a pond all day in summer for it was quite hot outside. I do not know how I learned to swim, but I remebered I has a full sense of achievement I firstly swam from one side to the oposite side of the pond. The swimming style was as not standard as the TV shows. But I could not get drowned. I got fed up with swimming in the pond soon after I was experienced in swimming. SO I started to swim in the river about five hundred meters south of my home. In my hometown, flood was common in the river when it rainned heavily in summer. I often went to the river even it fooded and I liked to be adventurous. But my parents did not agree with me, I was punished severely when I returned from the river. All these things happened in my childhood. I think if you master to swim in early age and you will never forget this skill. This is my conclusion. First of all, you have to be interested in it and you can swim with your firends. secondly, you should take some time to learn it . I think you can be a very good swimmer if you like it. Anyway , Good luck to you and enjoy your learning experience.