Shallow to Deep

I am bored. I am bored of inverse beam dynamics. I am bored of Runge Kutta. I am bored of fourier expansions and FFT's . So I remembered that I have a blog. By the time you read this, my boredom will have been supressed by the pile of work which is hanging over my head.

So after a long hiatus, my blog is back. And this time I etch my journey from shallow to deep.
About more than a year ago , I was under the impression that I could sink spectacularly. If Hydrophobia is a legitimate word, I had hydroparanoia. Much of it can be blamed to maternal instincts. But as Russell Crowe said as Dr John Nash, I have been "terrified, mortified, petrified" by the very prospect of jumping into a swimming pool.
So I joined swimming lessons at the age of 25. The instructors were of the opnion that they would make a Thorpe or a Phelps out of me. After 2 weeks they realized if they could convert me from a stone to a log it was an enormous feat. Thorpe could wait for another day ... or another lifetime.
Learning to swim in holland was supposedly fun for some of my friends. Or atleast they thought that I was having fun, in such close proximity with bikini clad females in the water. They do not know the ultimate truth of life. When you are in the pool with your life in your hands, sinking one moment and frantically gasping for breath in the next your vision suddenly becomes so poor that you dont even look at the bikinis any more.
It becomes even more gruesome when the person next to you is swimming like a fish, and when you look at yourself you mutter " Naaah !! still a stone".
The Instructors shout from the edge of the pool .... Arms ! Legs ! Lonnnnngggggg !
After some weeks i saw that they left the lane i was swimming and were giving tips to the others. Apparantly I was so poor .. I was dead last of the class. So I told myself, I am going to do it on my own. They havent seen my determination, as hard as a rock. And then i started sinking again. I mean I never knew that throwing arms and legs in water is so damm difficult. If my legs move my arms dont, If my arms move, my legs dont. If some how i manage to do both, water enters my nose, i panick and drink half of the pool.
Then came swimming on the back ! Now that was supposed to be easy. Because in that position you can float easily. True. But only if you have a nose like an elephant.The first time i was floating , i was thrilled. Then came a wave , or so it seemed to me. Suddenly there was water inside my nose And then I started to sink.
Fortunately all this was in the shallow end . So every time I sank, I had solid ground below me and i could stand up again. After some time I thought I could manage swimming in the shallow end. Let me claify by what i mean by swimming . It is moving forward in water without touching the ground with your feet. Since I managed to do that I thought, lets try the deep side.
So i went diving in the deep end.
Till date I have the unique distinction of being the only person in class who had to be saved by the instructor .

I went back to the shallow end !

N.B. : Currently I have lost the onyl distinction I had. I can no longer sink spectacularly