Sharks & Minnows

 

         One of my favorite memories of my summer when I was a child was playing the games sharkes and Minnows. It was a game we played in the pool, my group of friends and I would designate one person to be the Sharks and the rest were minnows. The job of the Sharks would be to swim to the middle of the deep end of the pool, where we could dive in at, and wait in the water for the minnows to jump in and swim to the other side. The goal for the minnows was simply to swim to the other side, above or below the water, to safety without being eaten (tagged) by the sharks. If the minnow was tagged they became apart of the sharks and this would go on until their was one minnow left.

                                        

     

    I love this memory because I was always a fish when it came to water, no I'm

not literally a mermaid although that would be awesome, my parents couldn't get me out of the pool. From the time the pool opened until the time it closed my friends and I would be there.   

 

 

      When the pool closed we all went back to my house and swam in my own pool. But I'm getting off topic slightly. I loved this game because I was fast in the water, I could dive to the bottom and I could hold my breath for such a long time. I would dive in the water all the way down to the floor and sit there, looking up at the other swimming minnows and hungry sharks as they devised their plan of attack, I would wait to move from the bottom until the perfect second to where I could swim across underwater and not get tagged.

 

I was always one of the lasts of the minnows I made sure I was always one of the lasts. I remember when I swam above water I seen my shark coming for me so I dived down, my shark followed until it ran out of breath, I remember waiting to long that my chest was burning for air. It was a satisfying burning because I was so determined!!

 

    Life is like a game of Sharks and Minnows we always start off being a minnow its inevitable, but one day we will grow to be big Fish. Along our way to becoming big fish we will encounter some hungry sharks. The way I look at it is either you can get eaten by them hungry sharks or work harder dive deeper and arrive on the other side. No matter how much it may burn ( by burn I mean the struggles life gives you that seem impossible) the work will make it feel like it was nothing but a little pinch because the end result will be so sweet.