Reflective Essay: The Power Of Tide

I thought swimming was easy when I was younger but when I joined Tide, I discovered that I had thought wrong. That’s when I was formally introduced to a little thing called butterfly… Talk about a major game changer.
When I was on Tide in the fourth grade it taught me a lot about competitive swimming. Tide was extremely difficult and everything was really hard. Although, the most difficult of it all was butterfly. It was an extremely hard stroke to master and I couldn’t have been worse at it. The Tide coaches kept on breaking down how to swim butterfly properly but at the end of the day, I still sucked at it. I felt like every time I had tried, I didn’t get any better. But even with my awful results, I didn’t give up. I listened to every instruction,