win

I sent the below to some friends yesterday. I think they mostly had
no clue what to make of it, but it will probably be understood on
this list... :)

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I had a win today: I fell in the shower!
I know, my wins are strange these days. :)
But seriously: the win is not that I fell, but that it was really all right.
I used to have a lot of fear of injury, but it seems that already 
after a few days' use, EmoTrance has handled most of that! 
(emotrance.com)
My shower is in my bath, and the bathtub has curved sides, so if you 
stand too close to those, you can slip. And there is nothing to hold 
on to, so I fell backwards, ripping down the shower curtain, out onto 
the bathroom floor tiles.
Now I am a big man, 193cm and a hundred kilos, and the big ones fall 
harder, as they say. Also, I have fallen on my back twice before in 
this lifetime, and got back problems from it in the past, so...
But nothing happened.
The great thing was, for one thing: I knew it would be OK!
I am pretty sure that not long ago, I would have had a surge of big fear.
I am also pretty sure that *knowing* it would be OK helped it *be* OK!
Later, I noticed that the heavy wood seat on my toilet was totally 
out of whack, so I must have hit it pretty hard with my head. But I 
had and have no pains from that at all! Zip, nada, diddly, squat.
I did have a little pain in my left hand, which I injured as a kid. 
But I did EmoTrance on that while continuing my shower, and it went 
away in 30 seconds...
What more is, I was not in any way upset. In fact I felt and feel 
just dandy about it.
Like Bowie sang: "Ch-ch-changes!"
Yours, Eolake
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http://stobblehouse.com <-- My home page
http://eolake.blogspot.com <-- My blog
Somebody asked me: "if your life was a movie, would you watch it?" 
And it sounds like a good admonition to live an interesting life. But 
after thinking about it a little, I realized that I want to live a 
life which is interesting for me to live, not one which would be 
interesting for somebody else to watch.
- Eolake Stobblehouse