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Wah~
i had a FALL today!!! ><
this is such a great, big, tremendous, bombarding and earth-shaking news because i havent had a fall since 6 yrs ago?! totally 4got how painful it can get when ur knees and elbows get scraped... luckily there wasnt any bleeding.
this seems whimy, whining abt JUST a normal fall. Like i got nothing better to do huh?
yeah. maybe. haha.
but the main objective in this post is (other than commemorating my renewed knowledge of the pain when your elbows and knees kissed the hard gritty concrete ever so accidentally), to record the afterthought of the falling experience -- the cliche "stand up after the fall, man!".
well, should be more specific in my explanation. The thing goes like this:
This morning, while running after the bus (the last bus which would determine the fate of my late-coming record), i had a nasty (and ugly) fall. Luckily it was dark and nobody was near. Anyway, back to the point -- pain signals blasted into my brain (thanks to the efficiency of my nerve system)and practically took me by surprise tt i was kinda stunned and sat on the floor dazed for 3s (did i mention the last fall was like 6 yrs ago?). However, seeing the bus which has just left the bus stop and the prospect of maintaining a record of late 4 times since school reopened fading along with it, there came this decisive courage to ignore my physical pain and embarrassment and pick myself (and my bks) up almost immediately. The bus uncle was nice and waited a bit (at the expense of offending a whole busload of passengers) and thankfully, i got on the bus.
so, the main pt which i wanna to hilight is: if i hadnt picked myself up from the ground at that time, the bus driver wouldnt have stopped his already started bus to wait for me. I mean, i would have stood up anyway eventually, but the crucial thing is the time when you decide to pick yourself up from a bad fall. Had I sat there and moaned a bit over my pathetic fall before standing up again, i would have lost the bus. To be able to recover from failure is an important skill which all of us have to master, but to be able to recover quickly is even more important. The time we take to hesitate before making a comeback translates into god-knows how many opportunities we have allowed ourselves to miss. Just as the bus incident has demonstrated, opportunity waits for no man. Occasionally it does give second chances, but it's really up to us to take notice and grab it while we can.