(Pic of Cut on my face from falling into a wall)
The other night having a conversation with Warren I started thinking about myself and how I am very klutzy. Warren was nice enough to put it as “I don’t think you’re a klutz, I consider you just as very unlucky and if you slowed down you would be fine”. It made me think of how inconvenient it really has been to always be falling, tripping, dropping things, running into innocent people, inanimate objects and more. So, today I have started really paying attention to this and realized all of the things that I have to do in order to make sure I don’t hurt myself on a day to day basis.
It began in the morning on my way to work. I had to take a longer way around my apartment to avoid the ice because I always slide around as always, and walking up the stairs I had to hold on to the bar and focus on every step If I looked up I was for sure going to face plant. While at work I had to make sure I always had to double check my footing when washing the floors and pick my feet up extra when walking across the textured carpet (And yes I do trip on textured carpet as pathetic that may seem). This continued throughout the rest of the day from having to make sure I had something to hold onto when stepping up on a chair to get something just incase I lost my footing (which I did) to checking my shoe laces every ten minutes while walking around campus. I had never really noticed that I naturally took so many precautions.
Honestly I didn’t even notice that I was very klutzy until I started dating Warren about 8 or 9 months ago and he would always point out my numerous “spills” where as everyone else I knew would normally not even think twice because it was so frequent. I noticed that I did trip and stumble more than the people around me but I never really noticed that it was so much more than normal.
So, in conclusion I have made it one of my goals for this year is to become more coordinated. This seems so silly being a dancer and all and not being graceful except for when in dance shoes but I think with enough determination I can do it. So please wish me luck, because I will need a lot of it!
2 comments:
A lot of the women I know claim to be klutzes. I don't really accept that.
I think you hit it on the head and point out that those times when you do have an accident it's because you weren't paying attention.
In reality though everyone has accidents and close calls. Sometimes because they weren't paying attention, sometimes because they underestimated the danger, and sometimes because they're doing something stupid. That doesn't make them klutzes.
It's an attitude; a state of mind. If you think you're a klutz, you'll be a klutz. If you change that way of thinking, I think you'll find that you're not as "uncoordinated" as you think. Remember that it's attitude not aptitude that most often determines your success.
Anyway, that's my two cents...
Well said, Nate. I belong to the Recovering Klutzes Association; it is mostly an attitude and learning to take a little time. In addition, even dancing can be dangerous, from getting your toes stepped on to being dropped or worse, all which depend at least partly on those around you . . .
But good luck on staying more accident free.
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