Monty by Jim Meddick for July 25, 2014
July 24, 2014
July 26, 2014
Transcript:
Close your eyes and try to visualize sliding into the... No. No. This isn't working. When I close my eyes, I see myself plunging like a stone into the abyss... Drowned... My corpse becoming entangled in kelp... Flesh rotting and tiny sea creatures colonizing my skull... Oh, my... Um... Well... I guess this isn't... Oh, cool! What? I saw a narwhal swim by!...
When I was that age, my swim instructor just threw me in the deep end (and pulled me out soon afterward.) That took care of all the fear of being submerged.