How things change...

As some of you may know, I was a competitive swimmer for most of my life to date. When I was about 14 I started at a new club, a bigger club. Prior to that I had been training at the local pool down the road from. It was a 25m school pool, that was leased out to my favourite coach ever! Her name was Mary!

I started doing squad at this small club when I was about 6 and stayed there until I was about 12/13. I then had a season training at another small school pool which was also close to home, but not as close. Unfortunately that coach stopped coaching and so after that I was on a mission to find a new squad.

I decided the time was right to start a fresh, in a bigger squad with what I was hoping would be a better support network. I spent a good 5 or so years training there and made some fabulous friends. I should tell you about how I became friends with one of my good friends Tom one day, remind me!

Anyway, the purpose of this post was to highlight how things change.

Anyway, I developed a bit of a crush on (read: became totally smitten with) one of the guys there. He was older, super buff and kinda (read: very) cute. Nothing ever happened between the two of us! If you were to ask me to picture him, I would still picture him as he was back then...

Today that image was shattered! hahaha!

One of the joys of facebook is seeing mutual friends photos. Through the mutual friends we have from all those years of training together I saw some photos of him today.

Just to be clear it has been about 4 or so years since I have seen him and seeing the photos today did absolutely nothing, nothing at all for me!

It is weird how things change... I was also very smitten with a certain football player as a 16 year old... He shall remain nameless, but all of my high school friends will know exactly who I am talking about... Now though, I wouldn't give him a second thought.

It makes me wonder how you can be "so into" someone at one point in time, yet so "blah" about them at another. It is also kind of scary that things can change that much in such a relatively short period of time...

Anyway, I just thought I'd share today's story with you! Needless to say I had a few giggles, and reminisced and wondered how on earth I was so smitten... But I guess that is the fun "mistakes" or whatever you want to call them, that you get to look back on later in life and laugh at!

Just to entertain you all, here is a photo of me from when I was 16. This was my sweet sixteen birthday, which also doubled as the TAS Swimming Carnival. (TAS was my high school's version of GPS... Basically it was the inter-school swimming carnival between schools such as JPC, Redeemer, West Mac,  Loretto, Stuartholme, St Columbans etc) [that is my beautiful dog Jedda in the photo with me. RIP Beautiful Angel!]

Promise not to laugh too hard ;)

xx love Breanna