In water, the body and soul take on other properties.
Morphing, moving differently, belonging to no one, having everything belong to you. If only for brief transitory periods of time. But if you can find enough of those times, of being nobody, just a tiny moving being, here, now, in this bit of time, in this bit of universe. Where you get to be water immersed in water. Well, wow, that can change a life.
when swimming i am nobody i become for a time a nobody nobody's mother nobody's wife, nobody's sister, daughter, friend for life. nobody's ... [insert job title here] all the roles and rules are out of play suspended so i become only a swimmer just a lone human submerged in the vastness and minded by silky arms all around holding holding holding this nobody