Falling and Rising
Always Getting Back Up
We’re all right as long as
our gettings-back-up
equal our fallings-down
This, of course, assumes that you’re upstanding to start with. But given that, if you match every fall with a rising again, you’re still good, and most likely (or quite definitely) tenacious.
I can think of only one excuse to stay horizontally put as it were; that is when Death comes a-hollerin’. Don’t antagonize him. Stay down, it’ll soon be over.
That said, we admire those who refuse to stay down, no matter what, though that can (as all things can) be taken to ridiculous extremes, as in when you’re supposed to stay down (as I said, when Death finally comes a-calling). A hilarious example of this is Peter Sellers’ stick-to-itiveness in the opening sequence of “The Party”. If you haven’t seen it, check the YouTube link below, it’s well worth watching.
Sellers link: https://youtu.be/kGi2AlMhraQ
But Sellers’ antics aside, I have always thought highly of those that, no matter the odds, no matter how steep the incline or height of the mountain side before you still keep going, if for no other reason than that they had decided to do it — being true to oneself always held to be sacrosanct.
