Anti labels (people are people and should be treated as such regarldless if they're gay, straight, white, black, christian, muslim etc), armed pacifist, libertarian, crazy cat lady, some weird combination between country and the beach. Pro Law Enforcement. Probably a dick
You aren’t dead, but you’re leaving our friend group.
You aren’t dead but you’ve moved to a different state and now we text twice a year.
You aren’t dead but you blocked me.
You aren’t dead but we stopped talking, not on purpose but so long ago that I wouldn’t even know what to say to you now.
You aren’t dead but you’re a stranger to me now.
You aren’t dead but we lost touch and now I don’t even remember your username.
You aren’t dead but I ended things with you and now we never speak.
You aren’t dead but I still have to grieve you. Whether I’d change it if I could or not, you’re still a presence that I’m used to and now you won’t be there anymore.
recently saw someone’s “advice for your 30s” which included something like “never get on the floor without having an escape plan for getting back up” and um. if you are otherwise able bodied and having trouble getting up from the floor in your 30s. you are very unhealthy. yes, even, if not especially, for that age.
I’ll add that if you are having trouble getting up from the floor at any age, you should definitely practice and repeat it as a form of exercise. Yes I am serious, it is one of the exercises I used to do in dance class. Those muscles are important and you definitely don’t want them to go away —- especially if you fall down!!! Most people don’t realize they’ve lost the ability to get up from the floor until years later when they have fallen and are trying to get back up and can’t. That’s such a scary situation to be in. If you’ve been chalking up the decline of your physical form to chronic pain related to aging, stop to think about the possibility of it being your body’s way of telling you that the bigger stronger muscles are constantly compensating for the smaller weakening ones. And then do something about it. Don’t let yourself wither.
Also!!!! Stand up right now and see if you can balance on one foot for 10 seconds. Then do the other foot.
If you can’t, then you need to practice this at least twice a day until you can.
Maintaining your ability to balance is one of THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU CAN DO to ensure your future safety. If your ability to balance is eroded, then your likelihood of being a repeat victim of trips and falls as you get older is SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASED. And with falls, comes injuries. Comes sprains and bruises at best - breaks, dislocations, and hospitalisations at worst.
And when you’re older, breaks and dislocations can lead to complications which can lead to severely decreased quality of life, and/or outright death. The number of people who are relatively healthy, but fall, break something, and then never make it home, is a significant number.
So stand up. Right now. See if you can balance on your right foot for 10 seconds without wobbling or grabbing onto something. Then do your left foot.
Practice stepping into your underwear whilst standing. Can you navigate your foot into the leghole without having to sit down or grab onto something? If you’re otherwise able-bodied, that is something you should be able to do.
If you can’t do it, practice it until you can.
If you can do it, check periodically to make sure that you can STILL do it.
It seems like a silly little insignificant thing, but its a measure of your overall ability to balance, and its literally SO important.
Also worth noting that if you’re practicing getting up and you’re able to do so, practice in multiple ways
I’ve never had a problem getting up right up until I fell and fractured something in my left hand and discovered that I ALWAYS use my left hand to get up and getting up right handed was very difficult because I just had no practice using it that way
Also, if you’re trying to do these things and really genuinely struggling, maybe look into it and find out if you’re actually as able-bodied as you assume.
My mom is notoriously clumsy and now that she’s in her 70s I worry about her. She took a really bad spill, even knocked herself out, when she was visiting. It looked like she got in a fight- too bad the “other guy” was a concrete step. Even with extensive hospital scans, she didn’t break ANYTHING and her doctors attributed that to her being in really great shape(she works with a trainer).
I told myself that I never wanted to get like my grandma and not be able to get off the floor, so yeah. Move it Move it, folks.
if you take a 40 mg edible, drink a cappuccino, and pour yourself a cocktail at 9 am. you too can start making banana bread, pick up your phone to check a measurement, forget what you were doing, and loom over a bowl of mashed banana for 10 minutes without moving
truly do not understand how people just slip into relationships and jobs and opportunities and friend groups and lifestyles. to me there are a million obstacles to navigate in a single basic conversation
