Rising on Unsteady Legs to Stand Firm

Sometimes you fall; like a toddler learning to walk, you stumble, hold on as best as you can; but sometimes you fall.

Lying there face down in dirt or sitting flat on your backside you are faced with two choices: stay there or rise up.

If you choose to stay down, flat on your face, eventually you will suffocate and expire, withering away into nothingness, an empty forgotten shell. To make this happen, you just have to decide to stay in that one spot.

If you choose to rise, your legs will be wobbly, like a newborn foal. You may start to rise but then you fall again. Once more you are faced with that choice of staying down or trying once more, forcing yourself to get up. Shaky, unsteady legs will eventually gain a firm footing.

This time when you stand the legs feel sturdier. It's not to say you won't fall again. But having the knowledge of what it is to fall, to be on your face suffocating in distress and the knowledge of also standing firm once more, I'm sure you will rise; unsteady legs made firm to carry you through life's trek.