Deep Water

Have you ever felt like you couldn’t face you’re biggest fear? That your heart tells you to be brave and you can do this, but you never have the courage to. You feel so frightened and afraid to face your biggest fear in the world. These are the feelings and many fragile emotions readers will experience in the story “Deep Water,” by William Douglas. Readers will come to realize that facing fears is a precious thing and so hard to do, but afterwards you have this sensation that leaves you feeling blissful and superb.

In the story Deep Water the author William is the character who is terrified to go in the water and to face his biggest fear which is swimming. This connects to many things I’ve read, experienced, and even seen. From William eventually facing his fear and going swimming reminds me of this show “The Bachelor.” I can connect to this because one of the women on the show, Jackie, had a fear of heights. Then Brad, the Bachelor surprised the women with going down a 310 foot waterfall. As the women went down the waterfall it slowly became Jackie’s turn. When Jackie was up she was deadly afraid to go, but Brad her lover promised it would be ok. Eventually Jackie faced her dreadful fear just how William did in the story Deep Water.

When William finally decided to take swimming lessons when he was older he ended up concurring his fear. This bonded to my personal life because my worst fear was going out in the ocean. Until one day when we were vacationing in Italy it was time to go out on the water and enjoy the view. I was terrified my hands were trembling and I had the most worried look on my face ever in my life. My dad finally persuaded me by throwing me in the water. I knew how to swim, but my fear was just of sharks and all those little crawly creatures. Once I finally settled down I came to conclusion that it wasn’t so bad. Furthermore I was always so fearful of the one thing that I actually enjoy now in my life. 

Finally William, Jackie, and I got over our fears by facing them. In addition we all came to understand that what we all feared was actually not bad and it’s better if you concur your fears then to have them bottled up inside you.