Once it’s gone, it’s gone!
By Fleur
@Fleura (30694)
United Kingdom
August 25, 2022 4:38pm CST
I wrote the other day about how the girls and I had all learned to dive together when we had a week of intensive swimming sessions.
I’ve been swimming another two or three times since then, and it’s so strange how completely things have changed. My fear of diving into the pool has completely evaporated. Now I can walk up to the side of the pool and dive in, just like that!
I can’t even understand what I was so afraid of before, it’s like trying (and failing) to understand another person. In this respect, as L. P. Hartley said, the past really is a foreign country.
If this inspires anyone else to get over their fears and try something new, it will a bonus!
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
13 Sep 22
you did really well - congratulations
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
13 Sep 22
@Fleura a whole World of possibilities to go for
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@Tampa_girl7 (50955)
• United States
31 Aug 22
I can remember the fear of diving too and then after the first time it was gone. 
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16821)
• China
5 Sep 22
It is like mountain-climbing,You are afraid of it before reach the summit,but you would think that it isn't as difficult as you expected, after make it.
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@BarBaraPrz (48034)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
25 Aug 22
My pool isn't deep enough for diving...
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@betlynfrnds (4069)
• United States
25 Aug 22
Oh, I remember my first dive as well. It was the same thing: At first I was so afraid to dive but after the first time, there was no stopping me.
Now I can dive from a standing position; I can run and dive and I can dive off of the diving board.
I'm not a pro by any means but I did get over my fear.
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@allknowing (138925)
• India
26 Aug 22
I got choked on my last swimming attempt years ago and that was the last.
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@kaylachan (73496)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
26 Aug 22
Congrats on getting over your fear. I don't dive anymore because its not safe. But, it's good that you can.
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@Juliaacv (51917)
• Canada
25 Aug 22
It is amazing how a little work and effort can make something so much easier and alot more fun.
Our son and his wife went thru that a couple of years ago when they got their stand up paddleboards, standing up on them in the water without falling was a challenge, but they finally figured it out. Now they love it.
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@Deepizzaguy (105326)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
25 Aug 22
That is very true that many fears we all have like being scared of frogs in my case are like a foreign country.
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@Beestring (14791)
• Hong Kong
26 Aug 22
I love swimming. So I'm not afraid of water. Talking about fear. I was bitten by a dog when I was a child. Since then, I've been very scared of dogs. It took me quite a long while overcoming this fear.
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@RasmaSandra (81617)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
25 Aug 22
I learned to swim but never well, and I always would swim in pools where I felt safer in the shallow end. I have never even thought of attempting to dive,
