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Those were the days

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When you are young you may do things that you are not going to dowill never doare not doingI don't know when grown-up. When I was a ten-year-old boy, we used to goingused to goget used to goingI don't know swimming in a river about five kilometres away from my hometown. On hot summer days, we rideroderidedI don't know our bicycles to that river. I was very bad inwithatI don't know swimming then I could only swim three metres or even less. So I preferred walking in the river than swimming. But once we went to the deeper part of the river. I have walkedhad walkedwalkedI don't know into the river as usual. But suddenly I realizedhave found outfoundI don't know that I could not touch the riverbed with my feet. I was terrifyinghorrifyinghorrifiedI don't know and startedhave startedwas startingI don't know moving my feet and arms like a swimmer but it was all in vain I was not able tocould notI don't know move forward. My friends were only two or three metres away and they could have helped me if I had asked them. I didn't want them to laugh at me later. I was only one or one halfone and halfone and a halfI don't know metres away from the shore. I was sinkingdrowningI don't know and drinking a lot of water. Suddenly I felt something like a plant stem. I heldholdedI don't know it then and to my surprise I have realizedrealizedfoundedI don't know the place I was drowning was only one-metre deep, I stood up calmly. I wasamI don't know happy I didn't shout for help and I never told them anything about that day. Having hadHavingtakingI don't know that experience I took swimming courses. I can now swim like a frog but not like a fischfishesa fishI don't know. Now I think how silly of me it was not shouting for help.