Safest Kid Pool on Earth
Many of the patterns that lead individuals down the pressure and distraction filled path of living also apply to human society structure.
The patterns are simply on a larger scale.
Individuals sometimes evolve into personal patterns that begin to make their life so complicated that they don’t have the hours available to address these self-imposed things to do.
Society has also fallen into a process of believing that more complex is always better. More complex is simply more complex and doesn’t equate into a better way. In fact, many of the patterns of our society have become so diluted and complex that the original intended purpose can no longer be achieved.
Rules become too stringent, laws become too layered and processes become so complicated that people cannot determine how to use or apply them or they are rendered ineffective.
These are well intended developments by people who have become blind over time to the fact that constantly increasing detail doesn’t always improve.
When I was a child our local swimming pool had one lifeguard for the entire pool. In fact, I was a lifeguard years later in my teens. As a lifeguard one sat ever diligent to any situation that might arise and only acted if needed. Otherwise the people swam and had a good time and dove off the 1 and 3 meter diving boards with screams of delight.
I recently sat at a local swimming pool and watched the people interact with the lifeguards. There were 8 lifeguards on duty around the pool area each with 4 foot long yellow safety floats. Children were not allowed to slide or dive into the deep end unless each took a swimming test beforehand.
Of course diving boards have been all but outlawed now because they have been deemed too dangerous and an insurance burden.
People were only allowed to swim in specific directions and the air was filled with toots and whistles of direction from the lifeguards who resembled traffic officers as they gestured from elevated perches.
The kid pool was a 32 by 35 foot area with water depth from 1 inch to 10 inches at its deepest. There were 3 lifeguards with floats stationed around this tiny kid pool that were quick to tell any violator not to swing, hang, run, dance, throw water, enter from an improper direction or any number of other rules.
Keep in mind that it took only 3 to 4 strides to reach any child in water barely above the ankles of the average adult.
The result was an almost empty pool. Within an hour or so the lifeguards had succeeded in running almost everyone out of the pool.
The people either sat on recliners and enjoyed the sun or simply wandered off seeking other things to do. The process of swimming had become daunting and almost painful under the incessant glare of the lifeguards.
The young children who once were laughing and splashing water were safe because they sat staring at the water from a distance not daring to go in.
Now, I’m certain the extra safety measures and rules were intended to make the experience safer for children and families, but the patterns had become so overbearing that people simply gave up on swimming.
Is this what we want for the improvement of our society?
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