Swimming lesson

So, here comes my first swimming class this morning, thanks to Xian who introduced her teacher to me. =) Swimming is always a relaxing sports. When I'm in the water, it feels like nothing can really worth my thinking any more. I'll just have to breathe in and breathe out, and with each stroke feel the force by the water which push me forward.


The first important lesson I learned about breast stroke is about rhythm. Ngek ngek, so I guess I had breast stroke arrhythmia (XD) before I really learned about the rhythmic thing today. Just like what Teacher Lily said, everything has its own rhythm. Breast stroke has no exception as well. It carries a four beat in which you do the steps one by one: Bend, kick, straighten, and blow your breath. After blowing out then you breathe in again and then start the whole new cycle. She then further said, "Everything in the universe has its own rhythm. This is the natural rhythm of the universe and that's why you see the sun rising up in the morning but not at night." I kept on nodding my head because this is so true~~ Sometimes many wrong things could happen if we lose our rhythm of life; We want to play games when we study. We watch tv when we eat. We wake up at night when it is time to sleep and we sleep when we suppose to wake up.  Haha. What a life disorder we have!


Not only physical disorder we have, we also somehow suffer from mental ones. We think of this when we're doing that and we think of that when we're doing this. Our "soul" were always not in the place where we're suppose to be at the present moment. Sometimes when we encounter a serious problem, we can even carry the problem in our head for 24 hours with us. To think about it over and over again when we're eating, resting, sleeping although we can't figure out a solution. Hence there is a Chinese proverb goes,

哭有时, 笑有时

分别有时,相聚有时

寻找有时,失落有时

悲伤有时,欢乐有时

Most of the times we tend to be over-worried or over-reacted to a problem which is not necessary. Sometimes it does not matter how heavy the glass of water is, what it matters is how long you have hold it with your hands that makes you feel tired. 

When you know the technique and  rhythm of swimming, then you can swim easier and faster. Just as when you know the correct way to live a life, life wouldn't be too harsh to you, because you know how to work with life. :)