blog 9

Never enough
Nearly all people are professionals in some field: some are good at basketball; some master badminton; also some people do well in science. I used to be very confident about my ability of sports, and in some sports I can rarely find rivals from my friends, and swimming is one of them. Yesterday I went to NUS to swim. After a simple preparation, I jumped into the swimming pool. Soon I found that a middle-aged American male was just next to me. So I said to myself: “let me race with him and beat him.” In the first round, we marched together, I felt so exhausted because he swam so fast, and I just narrowly followed him. Soon I was far behind him, but I did not want to give up. Perhaps in the sixth round, I just cannot move my hands and legs in the middle of the pool. I changed my posture to an easier way, and the man was still swimming in a high speed. As long as I reached the edge of the pool, I got out of the water and dragged to the wash room. I took a 30-minute bath there, during which I even cannot breathe, stars wrinkle in my eyes. I had never felt so tired before. After a ten-minute rest, I got out of the wash room. Weird, shocked, I found that the man was still in the pool and swimming in the same speed. I can only say that he defeated me thoroughly.
I used to believe that I can hardly find equals among surroundings, and I always believe that I do not need to practice hard to become better. I think this experience told me that we should be aware that you can never be good enough to have no rivals, no matter in what field. Sometimes when we think that we have already learnt something well, maybe we are not good enough.