This picture was taken of me on a diving board at Windy Hills, just north of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in 1974 (the same year as my avatar picture was taken of me). It is an interesting picture because there are several of these taken of me on diving boards throughout my youth, and this one represents the same thing---I would not dive. I thought I would dive, but I could not make myself do it---that is going in head first. Sometimes I would just jump in the water feet first, or leave the diving board altogether. I would however go off the high dive feet first at our local pool numerous times. My aversion was going in head first---something I would not do until later, and probably fewer than a half dozen times total. At 45 years old, I still have an aversion to diving. So...can you see the emotion of terror and fear in my face? Probably not because I have always been hard to read. That was often the same expression I showed in pure delight and deep fright.
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"My journey has just begun."