Cracking Up

"When you get old, don't fall. Because that's the start of the end. So remember: Don't fall." - Red Auerbach

I remember reading that falling is one of the leading indicators of remaining life span in older people. Losing mobility has a tremendous effect on vitality.

Physicists are right that "energy creates motion." But when I wake up on a groggy workday morning, it feels to me as if motion creates energy - thrusting myself out of bed and walking about gets the blood going, the progress flowing.

There's another analogy. Our personality grows as we move it forward. We make mistakes, but we move forward. And we do so with enthusiasm, refusing out of inner strength to complain or add color to the bleakness of the obstacles in the picture. Because when we fall - when we give in to weakness - a whole different momentum builds that can be the beginning of the end. The end of a project, a relationship, or a team, or a life.