Unusual is right.

You guys.  Today I fell in the grocery store.  My cowboy boot heel hit the floor just so that it had me laid out, in my peacoat, with a grocery bag in one hand, purse in the other.  Then I  popped up and exclaimed, "Yes!" at nearly the same time a clerk asked me if I was okay.  To add more humiliation to my disheveled ways, when I looked up (note to self: don't look up if you've fallen on the ground in public) at the clerk, it was a girl that I knew from high school.  Yeah, really.

Then after I pulled myself together, I ran out of the store and almost got side-swiped by a passing van.  No, just kidding, that didn't happen, but it made for a better story, no?  The ordeal had me laughing the rest of the two blocks to my social media seminar. 

Beyond finding myself sprawled out on the grocery store floor, it was a different kind of day.  It was rough.  There are a lot of stresses, choices, hard work and change on the horizon, and I heard some very bad news that has left my heart heavy.  For a moment, I caught myself thinking about the things that have sent me into a spiral of depression before, and I had to regroup right then and there and say, no.  I'm not going there, and even though there is much that I can't control, I'm blessed beyond measure and capable of overcoming daunting fetes. 

As long as I can laugh about falling in public, I'm golden.  You know?

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