Exploits in Water

Its been a day of triumph for me as I finally learnt to swim today. Its been years that i've desired to learn swimming. I had made an attempt a few months back to learn swimming with a few friends(with the help of their tips) in our apmt pool and no Coach. Initially I found it hard to stay afloat by just kicking. I thought it was impossible. I used to return after great exploits in water with body aches. So much aches that i had to take a crocin an hour before i got into the pool. Then there used to be blunders as we(me and another friend of mine who too was learning) used to close our eyes and struggle to swim across. On opening our eyes we would find that we had swam diagonally and not straight. I had to travel to my native in betwn and these water exploits got abandoned.
I got a chance again, a week back, to learn, coz a friend was going to the Pool daily for a swim. I took this opportunity to learn swimming again. I get some free time now since my yunger child has started school this year.Though the past few days i've only been splashing water in our apmt pool, I never thought that I would be successful since there's only been some directions from a few good friends on how to learn and some tips on breathing ,floating and basics. Not being trained by a professional didn't stand as a barrier to me as learning to swim was what I wanted to do somehow. My hardwork and Perseverance paid . And Of course, Somebody up there helped me too!
Now I need not feel J(jealous), when I watch the swimmers in the coming OLympics!