If You Fall Today Get Back Up Again Tomorrow
You’ve done it before and will do it again.
Nobody lives an absolutely, 100% perfect life. Nobody. Every person on the face of the Earth has crappy days, experiences stress, contends with shit on various levels, and feels bad. Everybody who lives, has lived, or will ever live, will experience this truth.
Sometimes this is not due to anything you did or didn’t do. Shit happens. You have zero control over anyone or anything else in the Universe. So that means things you don’t want will come your way.
Many times, this is due to your choices, actions, decisions, or lack thereof. You did something wrong, incorrect, foolish, silly, or undefinable that produced a negative result. Even when you do it all right, properly, and correctly, it can and will come apart at the seams or go off the rails.
In truth, everyone experiences both. You fall because someone else pulled the rug out from under you or you tripped yourself up. Sometimes both.
Whether this happens due to something“ you can or can’t control, what you do next is your choice. You decide if you will fall today and get up again tomorrow. Or not.
Tomorrow is a metaphor
If you’re walking along a path in the woods and trip over a branch, unless you do yourself grievous harm you get up again immediately. When the shit hits the fan in other ways that make you fall, getting up again immediately might need to be delayed for any number of reasons.
The point is that tomorrow isn’t literal. It’s specific to being the next step you take. Even when a fall is metaphoric, you choose to stay down or get back up again.
Literal or figurative, getting back up again when you fall is a choice. Do you try again or not?
When life goes wrong, things go bad, and you “fall”, there’s a choice once you land. Stay down or get back up again?
Many people wind up staying down. This usually takes the form of complaint, inaction, and dissatisfaction. They see no point in getting back up again, so they might as well stay down and stop trying.
This is, however, unrealistic. That’s because so long as you are here, there is always a tomorrow.
Many see this not as the potential and possibility it represents. Instead, they see it as a trial, a difficulty, and something not worth the time or effort. Great, today is shit, so odds are tomorrow will be, too. If that’s your approach, you are choosing to stay down when you fall today and not get back up again tomorrow.
If you fall today get back up again tomorrow
This idea is often mistaken for grandiose goals and the like. It is, however, utterly applicable to the mundane, the rote, and the routine.
For example, I have a goal of writing 1500 words of fiction a day. While I would love to say I meet and exceed that daily, I don’t. For reasons and excuses, there are days I fail at this. Ergo, I fall.
When that happens, I have a choice. Get back up again tomorrow and strive to make my goal or stay down? Maybe today I failed – but tomorrow is a whole other day. I get back up again tomorrow as if today never happened if I choose that.
This is why choices and decisions are so imperative. When you take the time and energy to actively choose and decide things for your life and the paths you take, you are directing it. This is, in fact, the majority of the control you can take of your life experience.
This is where active conscious awareness comes into play.
Ongoing mindfulness
Nobody is capable of constant, total, and all-the-time mindfulness. Everyone does things habitually because if you didn’t, you’d overtax your mind. Some choices and decisions are better left to automation, rote, and routine.
This includes super simple things like making your bed, brushing your teeth, getting dressed, and similar acts that you do every single day.
Until you seek to make a change to something of the above nature, non-automated mindfulness of it is unnecessary. However, if you feel in any way dissatisfied, distressed, uncomfortable, or uncertain, mindfulness serves two purposes.
The first is identifying your why. By practicing active conscious awareness and being mindful, you can learn what you’re thinking, what and how you’re feeling, your intentions, the positivity or negativity to how you approach things, and what actions you do and don’t take. Just note that this only works here and now, in the present.
The second purpose is you can change what isn’t working. Don’t like that you fell today? Get back up tomorrow. Choose, mindfully, to take actions, align your thoughts-feelings-intent-approach, and learn from today’s fall.
Fall today and get back up again tomorrow again
You have done this before. I guarantee that you’ve had this experience. Maybe it was an outside force or something that you did, but you had a day where you fell and fell hard. But, after that, you got back up again.
Maybe, relatively speaking, it was small. For example, you failed to get to the gym on that especially freezing cold Monday morning. That was the fall. But then, on Tuesday, even though it was still freezing, you went to the gym. That’s what I mean by fall today and get back up again tomorrow.
This is part of life. It happens to everyone, everywhere. From the highest to the lowest, the wisest to the most foolish, this is something nobody escapes experiencing. But most important of all, you have done this before and will do it again.
Knowing this, you have the power to choose and decide the next step when you fall today to get back up again tomorrow. It might not be easy, but you have done it before and can do it again.
What choices and decisions will you make the next time you fall?
This is the six-hundred-seventy-seventh (677) exploration of my Pathwalking philosophy. These weekly essays are my ideas for – and experiences with – applying mindfulness and positivity to walk along a chosen path of life to consciously create reality.
I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world and empower as many people as I can with conscious reality creation.
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