If you fall, get up. If you fall again, get up again. Fight, Run, Finish. You did all the time, when you were younger. You learned to talk, to walk, to eat, and do all the basics in this manner.

You tried something and it did not work. You might have thrown a brief fit, but then you got back to it, and kept after it.

But at some point, you grew out of it. When was the last time you kept after something with the same determination, with the same determination of a young child learning to crawl, walk, talk, or any other basic skill.

You have so many excuses to not do it. Obviously, or you would have done it.

Did it hurt the first time you fell. Yes, it did. It hurt. The second time, too. The third, a bit less. Still, it hurt. But you learned. You learned how to fall safer.

It is not painless  –  gravity still compels you towards the center of this planet, which happens to be towards the floor, and the floor is hard.

This could be taken as discouraging, learning very early on that you should expect to be falling so much. There is no getting around it: you will fall, a lot.

But if you keep getting up, and keep the above saying in mind, there is so much to be learned.

You know that it is going to happen, and you cease to be surprised by it every time. You learn that falling is not nearly as scary as you thought. Getting over that fear is empowering.

Once you realize that you can just get yourself up after a fall, you find yourself liberated – afraid of falling.

You will actually get better at falling. You will sense a fall coming, and be able to relax enough to make it safer.

You will become able to recognize that you are falling at a strange angle, and adjust, or that you are falling too fast, and try to slow yourself down.

Once you are not worried about falling, and barely have to think about it, you start thinking about bigger questions.

Why did I fall that time? How am I most likely to fall? What can I improve so I do not fall so hard next time? Learning to fall is just the first step.

Life is hard to everyone – the rich or the poor, the optimist or the pessimist, the good or the evil. Life has its own way.

Sometimes, it seems like all your hopes and dreams are coming together while other times, life throws all the bombs at the same time.

You could blame and complain. You could get frustrated and angry. Or you could get up and win.