The suit isn't being hung up quite yet!

After Monday (1st day of school Monday), people thought I was hanging up my swim suit for good. I was fed up with my high school coach, had NO desire to swim for her, or swim for my school in general. If I wasn't swimming high school, was it worth swimming 8 hours a week for Team YES? I didn't know.

If there is one thing I'm not though, it's a quitter. I've been swimming since I was three. THREE. I'm now seventeen. Do the math... that's fourteen YEARS. 14 years of loving swimming just for what it was to me; FUN.

When I was little, I loved swimming. Honestly LOVED it. I would chose swimming over my friends. I was crazy, I know. But I can honestly say I loved it.

For the past three years, I haven't loved swimming. I've loved my team, and my club coaches. I loved the friends I made through high school swimming. But swimming itself? More of a chore.

Through Wortham this summer, I thought I fell back in love with swimming. But now I'm dreading having to get back in the water. There is so much else that I could be doing that I think would be more productive, or more fun.

So I've decided that I'm just going to make these next 5 months of swimming plain FUN. I'm going to fall back in love with the swimming, I'm going to love swimming again because I'm going to make it fun. I'm not stressing about whether or not I'm the fastest I've ever been, or if I drop time EVERY time I compete. On January 29th, I'll be done swimming more than likely. On January 30th, am I going to remember that I swam my fastest times this season? Probably not. Am I going to remember all the memories made, fun had, pictures snapped, and opportunities seized? YES.

Is that saying I'm going to completely slack off? No. I'm just going to make the best of the season I have, without completely stressing myself out about it. Swimming's gonna be fun again :)