Be Kind

A man stopped me in the parking lot of the Y and said he wanted to swim the SAVE the BAY swim but he's not a good swimmer. I told him you'll be amazed by how fast you'll improve with practice. But there's one very important rule: BE KIND, I told him. The only way I can get here is to say to myself: Just do one lap. Because I'm not the same person after one lap or five or ten or twenty or thirty or forty or..."