A little creative writing…

“How are you feeling today?”

“Well, you remember that feeling when you were maybe a little older than a toddler and you had recently learned how to swim and were finally brave enough to swim in the deep end? And then you convinced your mom to let you go off the high dive, and then after mustering up the courage, you made the leap? And you shot to the bottom deeper than you had ever been, feeling the pressure in your ears for the first time and getting a little water up your nose leaving the slight sting of chlorine in your nostrils? And then you swim towards the light and breach the surface again into the full light of day and your mom is there waiting for you at the side of the pool with a huge smile on her face, congratulating you warmly in an elated, loving, voice like a melodious songbird in the Springtime? And as you swim towards the ladder you glance up at the slender, teen, lifeguard in her form fitting one piece suit, also smiling at you, and stirring in you new feelings that you cannot yet quite understand?… Like all that. I feel like that.”