So I dove into the water and swam hard. While you're underwater you can't hear very well, but when I swam that lap, the whole place was cheering me on to finish my race. That feeling made me want to swim harder, faster. It took me from wanting to stop swimming to wanting to get better. I've had many other moments like my first swim meet, but none have been as rewarding. My new reward was achieving a new goal. My first goal was to stop coming in last place, to stop being disqualified. It took a lot of training and some swimming races to reach my goal. To no longer be disqualified I switched from backstroke to breaststroke. I had a little more difficulty with the Frog, but I enjoyed it more. At first I was disqualified for incorrect form, then after hours and hours of practice I lost the technique. I still wasn't very fast swimming in any of my events, so that was the thing to work on next: speed. I started pushing myself more, learning different ways to improve my speed and form. Once I put it all together, my time improved. In some I even came second and third