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Ever since I was a kid, I love swimming a lot.

I remembered I told Mom, I wanted to be a swimmer.

I would bug her to sign me up for swimming lessons,

and when she signed me up for swimming lessons,

I would start bugging her to bring me to the pools everyday.

Swimming lessons are on Wednesdays,

but Mom would still bring me to the pool every weekends.

Playing in the water, swimming. I was so much a happy kid then.

But ever since I started schooling, I don't swim as much as I used to.

Of course there were times when school would bring us to the pools,

and I would always swim as fast as I could, trying to win the other kids.

Soon after, I graduated from Primary School,

and started Secondary School life, and from then, swimming came to a full stop.

Swimming.

Usually depends on how you look at it.

It could be carefree, lazily swimming on a Sunday afternoon.

It could be really fast, as though you are swimming towards the medal.

To me, it's a sports which is relaxing yet requires lots of stamina.

In my school, there was this big pond full of fishes.

I would always stand at the second level and look at them swim.

It slowly became a habit. Rain or shine, I would at least look at them once.

Every time I look at fishes swimming around in the pond, I feel envious.

Envious that they are so carefree and have no worries at all.

Maybe that was why I would always swim when I'm feeling down.

And maybe that was the reason why, I started swimming again.

And as I get older, swimming, slowly becomes something.
Something I couldn't really describe.

I remembered how I would swim so much like a swimmer.