U wont learn untill u jump

My high school was surrounded by lots of water bodies. The biggest was the river named "Dihing". Dihing is a devil river during summer, but none has to worry about it till we remain away from it. One of its tributary named "Naga " is what everyone cares about . Naga - the name has the energy,fun,encouragement and what not. Naga was swimming pool for all the students those who had a life out of books. I too became one of them. But it really takes to be one among those student if u are not an expert initially.


It was july 2006 when i joined the school. From that month itself people started going to the river. I called it 'Crazy' before i realise the real fun behind it. After the summer ended i had decided to get in to it anyhow. I begged my room mate,Marjim, to take me to the spot and teach me basics in the portion where he thought could be better for traning. After a long wait i went for traning. I was not alone,i had lots of beginner mate in the river. One among whom i had a tough competetion was Bullo kano. I went frequently to Naga to learn the basics. I always showed what new i had learned to my close competator and just before ending the last swim of the day we would go for racing. He learned back swimming before me but i got the front before him.

Before this day i always swimed in low levels. But my destiny was deciced, that day it had some other level for me. One of my expert friend,Bhim, asked me if i would go with him. On the way he decide ,he would help me improve a little more in it. Ok i thought but i was not clear what he was upto. We reached the spot and got ready to get into the water. I was going from behind to my level spot when he called me,"where are u going. Come here. Today i will teach how to jump into deep portion and come out safely ". These words had horrified me. I was as beginner and according to me only expert tried it. I got myself clear that i am not going to do this so early. But he won in convencing me. He went below to protect me if in case i face any trouble making it. I stood swinging my hand to make my go. Friends below started counting '1 23' but i failed to jump. They kept calling '123' but every time i made them disappoint. May be Bhim thought i wont go for it untill someone gives me a word of encouragement, so he screamed loud," u wont learn untill u jump". The words almost lifted my legs and next moment i was strugling to come to safe corner of the river. Friends were screaming, "a little more and you will reach thr corner". I kept moving my legs and hands in full swing but couldnt do any better. Atlast Bhim had to came to rescue.

After that day i had no fear left to do these staff. Every weekend i would go to river and thus i became an expert afterall. Be it exam days, festival...even during class 12 board exams, never could the river seperate me from itself...


But the words-" U wont learn untill u jump" still helps me. I feel, till we jump into the matter we wont know the real depth of it . These can really be helpfull in really life too. what i got from my memorable experience was more than enough to teach me nothing is imposible if we get into depth.