so, imagine you're swimming/diving underwater, and you're holding your breath....and you're deep down below the surface so you have to keep holding your breath as you swim up towards air, so you strain and strain and strain, and swim and swim and swim....and you know that that breath of air would be so so sweet...but it's still so far away, or so it seems, so you just keep swimming harder and harder, trying to reach that place as soon as you can. But the harder you swim the more desperate you become to get to air, and that desperation only gets more and more intense.

All you can think about is getting to the surface when you can finally breathe again...

to take a break from all that swimming

and holding your breath

and just _

breathe.