‘Why do you have to do this?’ asked her mother’s imaginary voice,’You know what your jatakam says! You are behaving like a teenager!’
‘She’s right, you know. Why tempt fate?’asked her own inner voice.
‘I need a mute button in my head’, she thought as took off her robe, unshackling herself from self doubt and years of living by the rules. ‘I might be sixty, but I can’t be sixty-one without learning to do this.’. And entered the swimming pool, for the very first time in her sixty years of life.
*jatakam – Horoscope
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OH. I meet people all the time who want to learn how to swim. 🙂 Totally worth it I say.
Excellent idea for a story.
Welcome here, and thank you 🙂
Exactly! You live only once 🙂 Make it the best!
Absolutely! If only I could employ that philosophy in my life too 🙂
you know my husband pronounces ‘horoscope’ as ‘Horror-scope’!
LOL! That is rather apt, I have to say 🙂
wow! a lovely 55er. Seriously such a nice take on the prompt 🙂
Richa
Thanks Richa! And welcome here!
That’s excellent…good for her! I think even i will take a dive too sometime soon 😀
Thank you Kajal, and welcome here:)
Thats me thats me thats me..change the 60 to 31, and yes I am trying to learn to swim at this age 🙂
RM, I’ve learnt swimming, and yet have forgotten:( Have to learn it properly, before I touch 60 and still not swim.
There are few things like this in everyone’s life. We keep thinking “all in good time”. Not all are lucky to actually be able to do them. Age is never a restriction for anything. Lovely. 🙂
Welcome here, Jyothi. And you are so right! All of us have things like this, which we have put away for various reasons and age certainly is no reason to not try something new.
LOVED it! I am so glad for her! 🙂
So, you’re trying your hands at fiction, eh? Great! Looking forward to more from you.
I guess I will be 60 too when I finally learn swimming and driving. 😐
Thanks TGND. Yes, I don’t do fiction, but when I saw this prompt, the story just leapt out to me:)
Some of the old people I’ve met have the most awesome attitude to life ever! 🙂
Have to agree with that!!!
Lovely one this is and all the more inspiring for me as I am planning to learn swimming as soon as we move to our place 🙂
I learnt it, and then did not swim for a bit, went back to swimming for a bit, and now worry if I ever can. I should try again. Sometime soon.
Good for here. Loved this one. I’ve always wanted to learn swimming too. Failed all three times I tried. While there’s life there’s hope, don’t you think? 😉
Where there’s life, there certainly is hope:)
That was a fantastic post Smits! Loved it!
And I am glad she shirked her inhibition off and took that dip! 🙂
Thanks Deeps:)
Hats off to her attitude and spirit! 🙂
Glad you liked it, Shilpa.
That is somethin Smita !! 60 and FULFILLING hopes and dreams
shows YOLO truly !
Welcome here, Afshan. And thank you:) This is my first attempt at this sort of thing, and am glad it worked:)
this is how I felt when I started to learn swimming at 30.. the fact that I am still a beginner is to be ignored 🙂
how true? you live only once so why complicate is what I ask myself very often when it comes to relationships..
True. You only live once, why make it difficult?
yay!
good for her! 🙂
Beautifully written Smithus! 🙂
Thanks Pix:)