The more a person struggles to get out of quicksand the faster they will sink. Staying still, and being calm, will actually make the body float in the quicksand because the body is less dense than the quicksand is.
As a young child, I had this ridiculous fear of dying in quicksand. Any movie that had quicksand in it have me nightmares for months. If only somebody had told me this fact sooner…
Change and Growth.
6 years ago