How close you have seen death? Part - 1

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Well I have seen myself in dying situation so many times. Thank god I made it alive all the time. So this is the first thing that happened to me where I should have died. Once I visited my aunt's house, I was 8 or 9 years old back then. There was a lots of ponds and people used to bath in ponds in villages. So I went to bath with my aunt's son who is also as same age as mine. After I went near the pond, there was a raft made with banana tress in the water. So me and him, started riding the raft. The raft was old, once we got in the middle of the pond, where the water level was so high, the raft broke and we fell into the water. Aunt's son was a good swimmer, he went to land in a moment, but i was drowning in the middle of the water. Irony is, a few days ago, my uncle said that if you stop breathing inside water, you are going to float. And I even tried that in the pond beside house. So when I was drowning, i was drinking a lot water i remember, and i was just going down. And then i remembered that i had to stop breathing, so i stopped and let myself float and it worked, some how i took huge air and then put my face under water immediately and then started moving the water with my hands annd legs. And I reached the land. I didn't realize but when I think of the incident now, it was really a scary moment of my life. It was a hell of experience and that is how I first started swimming. From then, I became a swimmer and I am really good at it.