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I almost drowned.

I was in a swimming pool with my younger, but bigger brother who doesn't know how to swim. He was in the shallow end and my brother and father kept egging my brother to try to swim in the deep end. So he wanted to try eventually.

He went to the area where it was sloping down and testing himself and he was fine. Eventually he went a bit deeper in and eventually, it was like something clicked in his head and he started to freak out in the water, which took him out of control and he started to have trouble staying above the water. My family started yelling at me to go to try to help him, so I did. Once I got there, he was freaking out so much that he was way way too strong for me, and was starting to push me under water. I for a while, became a buoy for him while my mother yelled for my father and brother to 'jump in and save him' to which they both threw their phones and wallets and did so.

I was breathing in a combination of water and air for a good minute. But if my brother and father didn't jump in, I'd probably be dead due to my brother's freakout. But of course, I wouldn't have been in that situation had he not been egged on to go to the deep end in the beginning.