04 September, 2011
falling down stairs
I fell down a wooden staircase today. I had an iPhone in one hand and a laptop in the other. I'm pretty amazed that I got away with a few grazes because at one point my mind told me something was broken. The only other time I've seriously fallen down stairs was once when I was 3, my oldest memory (converged with imagination I'm sure) and again when I was 7, got concussion and had a day off school.
Anyway, shortly after, I read this post from Faris about beliefs and the idea that "surfacing the serediptious is as valuable, or more valuable in some senses, then simply creating more content, it could be argued..." as he reruns some of his previous ideas... I'm looking forward to seeing whether any of his views have changed and what they may have been. The beauty of the tangibility of stories on the interweb - so easily resurfaced and reflected upon. And equally dangerous.
Personally, while a tad sore and bruised, I'm pretty relieved that I didn't break my back this morning. Perhaps I'll think twice in future when walking with my appended devices down wooden stairs in a pair of sandals. A pretty painful and quick lesson to learn.
2 comments:
Ouch. You poor thing.
Oddly enough I had a flash back I couldn't shake off last night of my sister falling down the wooden stairs of a theme park in the 70's. My father filmed it and I happened to see it again when converting all those Cine films to video for my Mum's birthday present in the 90's.
My sister is disabled and so her balance isn't good. She was at the top of the stairs of a wooden fort and my father was filming her as she waved and started to topple over. You can hear my mother starting to panic as she realises she's going to fall.
I've occasionally thought of it over the years, but it took time to stop thinking about it last night as the feeling of helplessness is upsetting.
Oh Charles, I'm sorry to hear that. Your poor sister that sounds terrible, I hope she recovered.
It certainly was the last thing on my mind and yet, from now on, the first thing I will watch out for when trundling down a staircase.
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