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I actually did kinda force myself to learn to swim back in July 2014, just days after my father passed away. At that point, I felt if I couldn't make it back up, I didn't deserve to be alive.
Hell, I treated it as if it was a BMX flatland trick of sorts, just go at it fully determined to make it through. I picked probably the worst possible spot in a deep river with a heavy current, and swung off of a rope right into the deep drink.
It wasn't my intent to die that day, it was my intent to prove to myself that I can survive even the unknown scary situations in the world.
I won't claim to be the best swimmer out there, but I'm still here today..
In my honest opinion, this is a reckless way to learn to swim. You could have died. Plenty of civic centers that you can swim for free or damn near free. You don't even need lessons.
I know. My ex girlfriend's son had almost drowned only 20 or so minutes earlier, and someone else saved him. Though he wasn't my kid, I felt really bad that I wasn't the one to save him.
There were lots of people around, and I did give someone a heads up that I was about to take the rope swing, made them aware I didn't actually know how to swim, and asked a stranger to hold my glasses for me.
It was at that moment I basically turned off my fear switch, as I would when trying a new BMX flatland trick. Already being a fairly athletic guy, the only real difference for me was the difference of the dynamics of the water.
I figured it out pretty quick though. Not in any hurry to do it again though, unless it becomes necessary for whatever reason.