Why do we fall?

So we learn to pick ourselves up*.

So we learn to savour the fall itself.

So we really know how hard it hits when we touch the ground.

Only to bounce back higher than before.

It is important to fall.

It is important to have felt humiliated, betrayed;
to have lost face,
to have been let down.

to have squirmed in your shoes
till you wished the earth would just gobble you up into oblivion.

It’s important so when you say to another, “I understand”,
you really mean it--For you’ve worn those shoes before.

Sometimes, it helps to be lying crumpled and tear-stained in a ditch, staring at a star lit sky...

For thoughts can only soar in the face of an endless sky;
They can’t dip deeper than the bedrock.


Every time you hit rock bottom, you also soar to a higher ground.

*Thank you Batman for  teaching me that lesson !