Questions on Falling
1. Have you ever felt what it’s like to fall with no one to catch you? (haha… inspired from a song? Help me, I’m falling… )
2. What will you do if you fell, slipped, or tripped? (But still very much conscious, nothing serious…)
a. Get up and say "o ano, kaya nyo yun?" (inspired by Iya
b. cry in pain so that people will take pity instead of laugh at you
c. play dead
3. Why is it funny to see someone slip, trip, or fall? Is it just something Filipino? (Maybe not. I’m reminded of America’s Funniest Home Videos hehe
4. Why it is that when you fall, you can’t keep yourself from smiling (or even laughing at yourself) even if it hurts?
5. Why do smart people fall?
Maybe this time, I won’t fall… Why did I come up with these questions? Just asking. :) This list is part of the list of questions I ask when I got nothing to do (well not that I have nothing to do…just having a break
September 18th, 2006 at 4:25 am
Hi, Aileen!
I can surely relate about your post on falling…Let me share my thoughts and first hand experience on falling (literally). When such unforgetable moment happens, it’s not really the bruises that hurt but it’s the embarrassment that really matters. I should know coz few years back (in a university setting) as I was rushing to go to my Chemistry class, I fell from the stairs with a some students around to witness one of the most memorable times in my life. It was indeed a defining moment for me because after I fell, I had the courage to stand (with some help from a by-stander),maintained composure to pick up my things and continue in my tracks. It’s a lesson I can surely apply when life throws something much more difficult to deal with than just literally falling.
September 20th, 2006 at 8:23 am
a very interesting question… questions that mean two different things… mmm… “We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely.” - Margaret Atwood
September 24th, 2006 at 4:06 am
hi john! thanks for the comment, it is interesting that i looked for the whole quote:
Falling in love, we said. I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion:so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love,they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always for the incarnation. That word made flesh.
(http://core.ecu.edu/engl/whisnantl/4300/jennifer.htm)
September 24th, 2006 at 4:10 am
Hi ate natz! thanks for sharing your most embarrassing experience (is it?) tell me more next time… hahaha :)they say it’s not how many times you fall, but how many times you get up that matters right? (but how can you fall again if you haven’t gotten up in the first place?) errr… haha… im not making sense anymore. oh, i think it should be “getting up each time you fall that matters.” so, point of the matter is, when you fall, get up and learn from it - don’t fall for the same reason again. If falling were stupid - what will falling for the same reason again be? Hehe