Sink-or-Swim?

As Billy travels through time he encounters a moment of his past where his father plans on teaching him how to swim. The method he uses is called sink-or-swim, being the name more than self explanatory. As he is thrown into the water, he is unable to swim and is quickly rescued by someone who jumps in the water. Sometimes a moment of desperation makes you do things which you would not do regularly, as his father thought would work with him if he threw him into the pool. Even if maybe in this case it didn't work, there are cases in which it comes out to perfection. I was once out vacationing with my father and little sisters, since my mother had decided to not go on that trip for a health issue with my grandfather. We assisted a hotel which had an extremely large pool, and so the oldest of my little sisters and I were told to keep an eye out for our baby sister, who at that time might have had 3-4 years. She still didn't know how to swim even after the efforts of my parents, but my sister and I decided to teach her while our mom was out, since she didn't like our methods for getting her to swim. In this case we decided to do the same thing Billy's father did with him, and both of us went into the pool with her. We began playing around with her as we would normally would, but from a moment to another I submerged into the water while she was hanging to my back to keep from sinking,. While my sister stood nearby and while I kept an eye on her at the same time from inside the water, we saw how she began to desperately swim and go all the way to the side of the pool to hold on from the side. What happened here is another example of my previous blog, on how something might limit us from doing something we are perfectly capable of doing, being this case the fear of sinking. Also it proves how we need the help of others, sometimes it being a simple push, or in my case, dive, which is sometimes necessary for us to overcome obstacles we feel we are unable to go through, limiting our true potential.