ALMOST DROWNED WHEN I WAS A CHILD [#16964]

When I was 4 years old, I went through a traumatic experience, in which I almost drowned in a pool. Through the kindness of Hashem, my life was saved. My parents took us to a hotel for Pesach and my mother took me to the swimming pool. She wasn’t watching me and I waded further into the pool, and before I knew it I was way past the kiddie part of the pool and it was bit deep for me, and I suddenly found myself going drowning. I didn’t know how to swim and my head kept bobbing over and under the water every couple of seconds, and it was like this for a few minutes. Every time my head surfaced, I yelled “HELP!” But it was loud at the pool and people didn’t hear me, and I had only one second at a time to yell for help. Finally someone saw me and pulled me out of the water and saved my life. I remember that I was davening to Hashem mentally in my mind that He should save me. How did I know to daven to Hashem when I was only 4 and I never had a relationship with Hashem yet? But somehow, I knew. What I want to know is: Is there any deeper meaning as to Hashem let me be saved from the water when by all means I should have drowned? Did Hashem save me from the water because my tikkun is to repair my soul’s “element of water”? Was I supposed to really drown in the water because of a previous lifetime, but Hashem had mercy on me and let me live? Did Hashem let me live because He wanted me to have a special role on this world somehow? And if yes, what is the avodah that Hashem wants from me?

Yes. You already know quite well from your emotional, reactive, and loving nature that you have a very strong element of water.
When a person misuses the power of love by seeking lustful desires, this is the root cause for [premature] death. The tikkun (repair) for is to redirect the “love” towards holiness, and through balancing the emotions with the intellect.