Love this 👉 "I’m not interested in having a perfect stroke, or even in improving it, or in getting faster, or more efficient. I don’t want to think about my stroke. I swim so that I can think about other things."
Thanks for sharing - and particularly for expressing what is perhaps something primal and transcendent within all of us. I swim for the same reasons you've described. It's really just part of "being"- with one's self, surroundings, senses, time - completely and in entirety. My own musings indeed are inadequate!
Love this 👉 "I’m not interested in having a perfect stroke, or even in improving it, or in getting faster, or more efficient. I don’t want to think about my stroke. I swim so that I can think about other things."
Not everything needs to be optimized.
Hi Gregory, I really enjoyed this piece, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing - and particularly for expressing what is perhaps something primal and transcendent within all of us. I swim for the same reasons you've described. It's really just part of "being"- with one's self, surroundings, senses, time - completely and in entirety. My own musings indeed are inadequate!