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crimeronan · 2 years ago

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after doing my usual lap swimming tonight i dove off the diving board a couple times and god there really is nothing like the deep end of a pool. the local pool is 12 feet deep which is deeper than anywhere that i've swum before (that's a non open body of water) and just. sitting at the bottom in the silence and the stillness with the weight of the water pressing down on you and looking up and seeing the lights and the surface so so so far away bc you are down in your little alien world and everything is calm and quiet and empty and still. i have been chasing this for nearly 27 years. when i was a kid i asked to buy a scuba tank so i could lay on the floor of a pool for an hour.

#my parents were not amenable to this desire which was fair. but i still want it now #thinking about that underwater mall in dubai that you can dive into and explore. god #i didn't stay at the bottom of the pool for as long as i wanted tonight because i don't wanna make the lifeguards' jobs harder #(in monitoring me not in like. drowning. i know how not to drown myself.)#my most ideal world remains one where i have a scuba tank that somehow has enough o2 for a week and i just sleep eat and move underwater #swim tag #there was one young girl also using the diving board who stayed in the 12 foot end treading water even tho #there's a 6 foot section perfectly accessible. presumably because the deeper and more open the water the better #i feel you girl. i used to swim across lakes unsupervised. and also swim beside my aunt's kayak when we'd go out in the ocean #i've gone much MUCH deeper than 12 feet under in lakes in the past. it was a game of #carefully measuring my breath to see how far i could get before i couldn't get back up without drowning

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