A PHOENIX
IS FIVE THOUSAND LEOS
A friend's history sub returned all’ activity' scuba diver:
My name and Conrad, are 27 years old and I knew Mario and
Alfina when I was 21 years old in the distant Summer of 2000.
I premise that I/you/they have always been a very active and
practising person of manifold activities' sporting. Such my
nature has also brought me to feel there activity' scuba diver.
I achieved the brevet Open Water Diver in Sicily in June of
2000 and then finding again me in Calabria for motives for
job decided to continue this new activity' that you/he/she
was impassioning me. From here my meeting with Mario and Alfina:
it was the month of July of 2000, I was me on the waterfront
of Monasterace, near the parking lot of the G.di F. and I
noticed a furgoncino full of writings to pass in front of
me, reading those writings I realized me that it dealt with
the Diving Center Stings Stylus, therefore there activity'
that from few I had undertaken and that you/he/she was impassioning
me as. Definite to ask information to the two occupants which
have immediately shown very polite, clarifying every doubt
of mine and from them' to few we planned un’ immersion. During
the first immersion notaries suffered the seriousness' and
the precision of the staff and I was struck above all by the
professionalism' with which Mario and Alfina followed me from
the briefing to the de-briefing. With them I achieved numerous
brevets give her/it Advanced Open Water Diver to the Dan Oxigen
Provider, from the Star Medic to the Rescue Diver. I was thrown
headfirst in short on this activity' and having a good time
little by little me I started to grow and to mature experiences.
Up to December of 2000: was here' that I begin my change and
with it also my troubles! I knew someone that I believed an
important person to the point to dissuade me from every interest
of mine and relaxation. At times it happens to find himself/herself/themselves
so devoted to the person to which you love from lasciar in
second floor your projects and your personal affairs to make
place to common projects. But my little experience in this
field had evidently betrayed me and so I found alone me after
five years and fattened up of around 40 kilos, for the long
period of inactivity' physics and deeply wounded nell’ mind,
to the point to reach to think that I would not be anymore'
the person of before, that was not firm one minute returned
and that you/he/she could show off an enviable physicist.
Generally when you reach this point they are only there two
roads to undertake: Or you allow yourself to go and you don't
know to what end you can arrive; Or you give yourself one
wakened and you start to build you a decent future. Fortunately
I undertaken the second road but not for my wish' on the contrary'
release a rubber band inside me that today I don't attribute
to myself yet, on the contrary' to some strength that personally
I know even how to explain. Such strength, sprung inside of
me, and is so' intense that seemed I had 500.000 lions that
contemporarily roar inside my heart. A strength so devastante
to push again me not to have an instant of truce: I began
May 1 st 2005 to race and I made him/it every saint day and
for the days to come. As soon as I increased the rhythms and
the time of run: when I began I hardly succeeded in reaching
15 minutes. With the time and with there summer that arrancava
I added a healthy swim to the run and I began to see the first
results. One day decided that it was to restart un’ activity
now that for a long time I had left dormant and that you/he/she
had given me numerous satisfactions. This way I phoned the
Diving Center of Point Stylus and I joined me to them in the
first useful immersion. I have to admit that for me it was
a hard po’ to take back after five years of break but the
wish it was as much not to hear any physical work and I tried
to taste only the pleasure that un’ immersion can give you:
a sense of indescribable peace, needs to try for knowing him/it,
you surrender yourself to yourself and you allow yourself
to wind give her/it surrounding environment forgetting you
of your problems, rather in a certain sense and as if I left
them in surface and harbors sott’ water all of this that c’
and' of good person in you. You are alone down with yourself,
your breath and you that in a certain sense it seems to articulate
once that you perceive in a different way from when you are
in surface, once that you maneuver with your bellows. And
and is also sott’ water that I have lived my rebirth. As a
phoenix (symbol to which I/you/they am personally very tied
up) it revives from his/her own ashes, I am reborn from mine
and the scuba diver you/he/she has also played his/her own
positive role. To today I have lost 50 kilos, is returned
in such an amazing physical form that even in past I possessed,
I am not firm one minute, practical again manifold activities'
sporting among what: swimming, raced, workout, fit-boxe, full
contact, boxe and scuba diver. Quest’ultima is impassioning
me as and you/he/she is giving me as satisfactions to the
such point to undertake her/it in very serious way. I train
per diem now me for four hours of which alone un’ora of run!!
Do so many friends ask me whether to cultivate really this
“La Scuba diver? ” after all many others exist of it! But
I am a stubborn for nature! And I have chosen this discipline
because the spirit forges yourself besides the physicist.
Make me feel well, tired, destroyed but pleasantly satisfied!
Personally I believe that this discipline is l’unica to have
a magic. The magic to fight battles to the of the of every
patience. The magic to risk all for a dream that nobody sees
between you and you. I thank Mario and Alfina to have given
me way of exposing my experience and today I feel me to also
thank the person that has abandoned me. After all if you/he/she
had not been for her the lions you/they would never have roared
and the phoenix would not again have detached the flight.
Conrad Raucea (SR)
