I go into a meditative state but I don’t follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate.
I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn’t like. They didn’t push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.
It is when you are confronted with challenges that you see what you are really made of, what is important to you and what your true aspirations are…sometimes you think that you really know yourself, and then you find out that you really don’t.
If you think you cannot do it, you set yourself up to fail anyway. Maybe it will take one more try to do it, and that is what life is about. If you don’t get it right on the first try, you try again. You keep doing it and doing it until you find success!
The relationship that I had with my father did not stop when he passed away. An example is me doing the Pacific swim. If I didn’t have the father that I had I wouldn’t be doing this.
We had a close connection in life, and I still carry that connection in following my dream. This is because of my parents, the closeness that we had and what we share together.
After I finished the Atlantic swim I said “never again,” but it didn’t take long for me to change my mind. I like to push my limits. I want to raise money for cancer research and to inspire others to follow their dreams.
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