To swim or not to swim?

born_of_fire74

As Mari22na alluded to, swimming is great for my mental health. I took adult lessons and only learned how to swim with my face in the water doing an actual swimming stroke not long ago. As such, I spend so much time concentrating on breathing properly, stroking properly and, most importantly, not drowning that I don't think about anything but those three things while in the pool. It is such a pleasure to empty my mind of work, money, food, family, politics or anything else for the duration of my swim that I think I benefit more from that than I do in any physical terms.