• jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    When I was a kid I did gymnastics, and skateboarded/rollerbladed. This combination of activities meant I was falling on my ass all the god damn time.

    It also means that I am so accustomed to falling, that even as I age, those instincts survive, and in turn, help me survive. When I fall, I tuck, I roll, I break my fall with any number of instinctual responses. This has lead to me surviving some scary falls I’ve taken whilst home alone (off a ladder, in the shower, fainting once when I got up from a long squat), and I think will help me survive more in my elder years.

    • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
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      22 days ago

      Same here. It took me a while to realize not everyone rode bike or skated then ate shit as kids so now they eat shit.