It’s amazing how quickly you realize that something has gone wrong. That gut feeling. Those knots in your stomach. The ache in your chest. Breaking the waves back to the surface, I never gasped in air so fast.

It was totally valid for me to just stop there. I could have drowned.
I didn’t have to force myself to sit at the bottom of the ocean, holding my breath.

I could have died. But I didn’t.

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