With pulling a full courseload at CCU and working 40+ hours a week here at the station... it seems like the only thing that can get my head out of the books and out of the workload is catching up with old friends.
...and with catching up with old friends comes a sometimes much needed walk down memory lane. Well, today it was courtesy of my old high school swim coach Craig, who was "Craiggles" in my book back in the day.
Part of his message just goes to show that I wasn't always the "cooperative one" and the "get it done" type:
"I still remember a young, teary-eyed little girl crying because she didn't want to get into the cold pool
at 6 AM for practice. I'd be thinking, 'What do I have to do to get this girl to swim?!?' Sometimes I'd be
nice, sometimes I'd be mean about it. 'GET IN THE POOL AND SWIM.. NOW MEGHAN MILLER!' haha"
You better believe I was a cry baby at the beginning of those lovely 6AM practices in a freezing cold (this is in the middle of a Pennsylvania winter) YMCA pool that were topped off with some FANTASTIC (sense the sarcasm?) lung busters. If you're not familiar with lung busters, it's a set where you have to swim a certain amount of yards without taking a breath. Now on the days that we were able to use fins, I could actually make them. But on those days when we didn't, we'll just say I got yelled at, cried, and had to keep doing lung busters until I could complete the set.
If it weren't for being in the middle of a newscast right now, I'd be hysterically laughing at myself at the top of my lungs. While swimming definitely brought out the worst in me (ONLY during those morning practices), Craig could tell you I was always all-smiles and a ball of sunshine when I hopped out of the pool each day. I can definitely say those years swimming for West York contain some of the best moments of my life. I swam with some AMAZING people, learned how to challenge myself, walked outside of my comfort zones and even scored a school record or two :)
So what's the lesson in all of this? Take a few minutes to get away from whatever you're doing and catch up with old friends from the past. Every once in a while, it's good to have a reminder of where you came from so you can appreciate where it is you're going.
Meghan Miller | meghanmiller@wmbfnews.com
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