Drowning

I think drowning is one of the most terrifying feelings I've ever had... that feeling of being totally out of control.. of not being able to breathe is something that  seriousely haunts me to this day when i'm in very deep water.

 Last year I went on a PK retreat and we went to Wet n Wild in Orlando. It was an amazing day and before we left we decided to go into the wave pool one last time. I'm pretty sure  the entire park had the same idea as we did because it was completely packed but we decided to go in anyways. We always knew to stay in groups, so a few of us decided to go into the deep end because the waves were much bigger and alot more fun to swim through. I have on idea why, but there were children that didnt even know how to swim in that end with their tubes, and personally I dont think that should be allowed. Somehow I got seperated from my friends, and as I was trying to swim back over to them a child in a tube kicked me upside the head and knocked me unconscious. Before I realized what had happened, I had already sunk to the bottom, but i guess i still wasnt functioning right because I was still in a state where i didnt realize what was going on. By then I had completely ran out of hair and starded breathing in water and completely flipping out. I tried swimming to the top but started blacking out because the water was so deep. I dont really remember what happened next, except that they turned the waves off and the lifeguard had to come in after me. Thankfully my friend had seen that I wasnt around, saw me under the water, and realized that I hadnt come up for a while. She was the one who saved my life by pulling me onto one of those dumb tubes.

 Its been quite some time, and i'm not as afraid of deep water as I used to be, but I will never be able to go into the deep end of a wave pool ever again. Drowning, I think.. would be one of the worst ways to die.