overcome my fear of the ocean

I love the beach, but I don’t like to go in the ocean. I think it began when I saw the movie Jaws. I feel that the ocean and all that is lurking in there creeps me out. Maybe it is because I am not a good swimmer, or maybe because when I was young my cousin kept pushing my head under the water and I was drowning.

Yeah I am so happy it is the end of the summer! I didn’t go to the beach at all because I was way too afraid. It was all because of three things : 1.when I was 8 I went on a cruise and we got off up by Canada and there was a ledge I was spinning around and around and was really dizzy and almost fell into the OCEAN. i hated it since then 2.When I went to Bermuda with my sister 4 years ago the beaches were so beautiful so we were jumping a few waves until a HUGE one splashed down and pulled me under I couldnt get up as soon as I could get up and get a small amount of air another wave came crashing down and I hit my head on a rock after that i stayed out of the water 3. I went to the beach with my friend michelle and i didnt really want to go in the water but they said there was nothing to be afraid of. I walked over to the shore and walked slowly in they pulled me out and I was jumping waves. the same thing as Bermuda happened. I was soo terrified I swam back to the sand and stayed out of the water ever since then. I am not sure if it was that I am afraid of water or drowning in the water. I love the beach though. the water is so beautiful but I just have a problem with it. I need to overcome it :)

O lordy. Summer is approaching and I know people are going to want me to go to the beach with them. I’m sort of freaked out because I remember last year…don’t want to think about it. This year I will go to people to the beach and maybe stick my feet in the water. I have to start slow. You wouldn’t understand how ominous the ocean is here unless you live here. It’s very murky and it’s just…disease, death, and decay waiting to happen. But I will try to swim in it again someday.

I live in Connecticut and the ocean here is terrible. It’s a murky green color and you can’t see the bottom no matter where you are in it. Theres also a lot of seaweed. I don’t much fancy the creatures I’ve seen in these waters. But this ocean has made me afraid of even simple lakes and ponds. I hardly like to swim in anything but pools.

I’m a child of the 70’s and nothing sparks more fear than a movie poster of a little bikini-clad woman swimming above a huge great-white shark.