i think and strongly recommend that everyone should master the art of falling.

i've always been very very extremely horribly scared of falling. i'm not afraid of heights, but i'm petrified of falling. i can't jump over the smallest things and when i do, i jump really high for fear of tripping. i have trouble getting onto a skateboard for fear it'll slip under me. i don't even take the first step. i have to oversome a great mental argument in my head before i can put both feet on a snakeboard. and just recently, i started blading again. i couldn't even bring myself to try to take that step to stand up by myself after putting my blades on.

yesterday i went to the beach. with a few classmates. they wanted to blade. i gave in to peer pressure, which i happened to give to myself, really. and i bladed! i didn't fall down for a really long time, mostly because the way i was blading was so stagnated. so cacat! then just as i thought i was getting good, i fell!!! right on my bum!!! and this construction worker who happened to be the only person around looked so shocked as though he couldn't believe that something so horrible could happen to anyone. but you know what? it wasn't that bad. it wasn't bad at all. in fact, picture this. some girl sitting on her bum alone in the middle of the track, laughing away to herself. that's how it looked like.

and after that, i wasn't so scared to fall anymore. i just kept going and going, faster and faster. it was a great improvement.

today, i went to the beach again. and i bladed again. with my daredevil of a brother, jeevan. he helped me to change my focus from falling to overtaking the green-shirted girl blader way ahead in front of me. and i beat her! haha! and i was blading even faster than ever before. and i just started again yesterday! woooh.

really, everyone should master the art of falling. only by falling do we realise we have nothing much to lose. and then we can go farther than ever before. now many of us are afraid to fall. therefore, by mastering the art of it, we'll fall with grace and style and of course, with the least pain possible, which would make falling seem not so bad after all.