This has been one strange day.....
Today I was at the beach with friends and we decided to try and swim to a bouy right out to sea. Don't ask why the hell i did it because I know I was stupid now.
Anyway, two of us started swimming really far out and for a while it seemed fine.....thought I was going to make it easy. But then it hit me like a brick wall.....and I suddenly felt really tired and got CRAMP! I started to panic immediately and couldn't move my legs well after that. It was all up to my arms......
I was really close to the bouy at this point but fear took over and I decided to turn back and head for shore. It was the most horrendous feeling when I did turn though.....because it was then that i realised how far I really was from the beach. I tried to swim slowly to save energy, but the crampt kept on coming back in small, frequent shocks. By this time my whole body was aching and my feet felt numb from all the kicking.
It seemed to take forever getting back as well. Because the tide was going out, the current was against me on the way back. It was also carrying me in a diagonal direction, meaning I was taking longer to get to the shore......
There was a point when I was in that water when i genuinely thought I was going to drown.....and die. I was absolutely terrified and it is the worst feeling I have ever experienced. I kept thinking "any second now that cramps is going to get really bad and your going to lose it....your going to sink under these waves and not get back up!"
When I realised I had made it, I think I actually thanked God for real.
However, it didn't end there, because once I was back on the beach I couldn't walk properly for ages and I went into a really violent, uncontrollable shiver and my legs were in real pain. It was just.....awful.
I had to share this in some way and didn't want to get my parents worried about me. Sorry if I depressed you or something.....but I feel really weird this evening, knowing that it could have gone much worse...
Please don't do what i did! Don't go too far out in the sea or do anything else like that! It was the most scared ive ever been......trust me
