When you go underwater in the pool, eyes closed, the water comforts you, surrounding and holding your entire body. Your hair and clothes float. You feel any small current passing by. Then, you open your eyes.
It hits me, face first. The need to breathe. Seeing that I am surrounded by water. The impossibility of opening my mouth. I gulp in my throat, without taking in water. The fuzzy light streams into my eyes, overwhelming. I hover, compressed. Then I push up to the surface and the water breaks over my head and drains away. I can see normally again.
