falling down

i learned how to fall down today. physically that is. learning to fall without getting hurt. even coming back up with a punch!
it's too bad that we aren't taught to do that emotionally. having fallen hard when i had my heart broken, it took me a long time to finally get up. i had no skills to soften my fall, no knowledge of how to recover. i just waited and time did its job. we let each other fall and THEN we scramble to pick up our pieces or we try to avoid it entirely. we grow up with everyone trying to shelter us from falling. we should really teach each other how to fall without getting hurt cause it's almost inevitable that one day we will fall.