Day By Day Personal Essay
Day By Day Claire Callahan The average person thinks about things they could have said or done differently almost everyday. However, over the past year I have learned that I can’t go back in time and change the past. So I asked myself why I would waste time thinking about things I could have done. Instead I have chosen to take every day by day, every swing by swing and to take every race by race. During swim season was the first time I noticed that I was constantly thinking about things I could have done differently. Whether it was a stroke, a race, or a turn. I remember a meet at Washington's pool, my stomach twisted and turned the smell of chlorine was strong even for me. Washs pool is my least favorite pool of all time. The walls a slippery, they use too much chlorine and the pool gets really shallow going to to turns. My first race was the 100 backstroke as soon as the official hit the buzzer we were off all of the knots in my stomach went away, until I went into my ...