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Peggy Cady's avatar

Forgive yourself and keep on going (but on the grass, or the chip trails!). It’s the same as when we make a mistake with a client. We kick ourselves, cringe, and feel stupid. We get up for work the next day and know have learned something valuable.

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Andrew Boardman's avatar

It's true, Peggy. I find it can take a few days for me to really make sense of a setback. And then walking slowly at first helps, too.

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E K's avatar

I'm finally getting around to reading some of your posts — an apt indicator of what my life is like these days, given how much I enjoy them. I really hope you're feeling 100% healed in the head; I live in fear of falling...I suppose it's the movie-like quality of "just when it was all going so well..."

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Alex M's avatar

Andrew, I love everything about this piece, except for you getting hurt. Made me think of Laurie Anderson's Walking and Falling. I see wisdom set free in your writing that, somehow, I associate with you being Montreal :). May you have warmer rains ahead.

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Andrew Boardman's avatar

Thanks, Alex. I will look up her Walking and Falling -- I may have seen it in the 80s! Let's bring on the warmer rains!

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Deborah's avatar

Oh, Andrew, I was right there with you as you relayed your mishap here. I've fallen while running several times—luckily, the worst has been bloody, scraped knees—and it's always shocking when it happens." I was just upright and crushing this run two seconds ago!" I hope you don't have to give up on your half-marathon goal. Take it easy for now.

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Andrew Boardman's avatar

Thanks, Deborah. I feel like it was both nothing and everything at the same time, do you know what I mean? Like it's just a bump on the head. But it could have been so much worse. And it's also about dusting yourself off and doing the thing.

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Cate Friesen's avatar

Better to have fallen while taking a run than climbing on a chair to get something from a high cupboard! Yes to falling upward! Hope you feel better soon.

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Andrew Boardman's avatar

Thanks, Cate. It was a stupid mistake but I decided to make it writ large lol.

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