I never seem to learn.....


There is nothing wrong being part of an accident if you know how not to do certain things.

Just 2 years ago, when I went for a Outbound training as part of an initial learning program in my company, I fell down in the most stupidest way, I fell down on my head from a log in which I was standing holding an untied rope. If only I didn’t concentrate on holding on to an unsupported freely hanging rope I would have fallen down on my legs which is much better than getting your head hurt.

I was concentrating on the rules of the game (part of which is catching the rope) rather than apply my common sense.

I had to give a finishing speech( actually you can say a finishing "speech" literally not a "literary" speech per say), in which I told the people ( that is my fellow participants) that I learnt how not to fall on that day and that it was a valuable lesson to take home and everyone laughed for that. But I really meant it. But the problem is I never seem to follow it.


I am beginning to notice one characteristic of mine, namely I don’t balance properly, even on my legs.

I slip down on even the tiniest crack on the floor, which is all very ignorable if you are on land and the crack is not ignorable.


But I seem to carry this habit of me falling off given the slightest chance, it’s as though I wait for a chance to fall down.

As I said above, it’s all very fine if it’s ignorable which is what most often happens on land, but I seem to religiously follow this even in or rather inside water.

The point to be noted is I choke on even one mug full of water, given that imagine sitting on the safe side of a raft (that it is indeed the safe side is identified as that because everyone else on that side of the boat didn’t fall down) and plunging down into the other side of the boat into the water as if I was in a diving contest.

Everyone else on the other side of the boat did fall down, but they did so, so that they can at least follow some safety measures briefed before going rafting since they fell down on their side of the raft, where others don’t fall from the safe side of the boat, I did not leave the opportunity to fall down even if it meant diving for the other side.


As one of my friend recently said “I follow every instruction for safety" read as in” I don’t follow anything", I cannot be without agreeing with him even though he might have been the person who flipped the boat so that I fell down. Even given sabotage, I am easily susceptible to do the wrong thing even on the right side of the situation.

I realise only after an accident that it should have been handled in a better way. But at least I pacify myself by saying that I at least identify my fault. There is no use in finding a problem if you can not fix it.

So I think the only way I can ondition my mind to not be susceptible to the wrong ways to handle accidents is I need to have mock accidents, which is very expensive.

So, I just pray that I get lots of lives just as in a video game to retry for the right way to fall each time I fall the wrong way!