I have no idea why I do this. It's maybe 7 or 8°C in the water and despite the sunshine the breeze was stabbing me with cold daggers. (I suddenly have an image of the great Kenneth Williams as Cesar in Carry on Cleo. "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in fa me.") .
Mostly I think I do it for the fame and money, I certainly seem to attract an audience most times, but so far passing the hat around has proved to be the part where the plan, such as it is, falls down. .
#outdoorswimmer
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#freshairandfreedom
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#redhead
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#onelifeliveit
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#beach
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#sharetheswimlove
#onthebeach
#waves
#Devon
#Torbay
#Goodrington
#sunshine
#february
#midwinter
There is we are told, an unprecedented level of mental health issues in the UK especially in yonger people, a growing level of dissatisfaction with life and rising suicide rate. .
No-one can say why. .
I'm not a smart person but I'd think the above details would create a loop of mental health problems just by themselves. .
Notwithstanding that anyone looking at social media sees endless pictures of people who have more than you, are doing more fun things and look better in their PJs than you do after a full makeover. Turn on the TV and it's more of the same, the witless being paid vast sums of cash to be ever more witless. .
And again today a report says the climate is wrecked beyond recovery, every news bulletin tells of threatened environments and a global mass extinction of species. The oceans are full of plastic and food is full of it and the air is toxic and killing us. Young people are looking at a future of rising sea levels, climate change, wars, shortages of water, food, everything. In fact no future at all. .
As I say, I'm not a smart person, but I can only wonder if being constantly told you have no future and may well be part of the last generation of people to live on this planet isn't a bit of a downer. .
I do not have an answer. There is no answer to 7 billion people each of whom wants it all. And whilst I am the only person who does not believe cold water swimming is the universal cure I do think if people spent more time looking at waves and less at screens, things might at least not get worse as quickly as they are. .
#mentalhealth
#waves
#sea
#nofuture
#outdoorswimmer
#swimwildandfree
#freshairandfreedom
#swimmingtime
#swimoutdoors
#wildswimming
#seaswimming
#onelifeliveit
#swimmer
#beach
#outdoorswimmingsociety
#sharetheswimlove
#onthebeach
#waves
