An Elegant Business Woman just Topples Over - (3501)

One day after work, 17:10 hundred hours, out of the office and on my way to catch the 910, walking down St Georges Terrace approaching the traffic lights at the corner of St. George's and Miligan there was a very elegant lady, executive type, dressed to kill as they say, hand bag, high heels and laptop. 

Then she just falls over, laptop and hand bag contents go everywhere. People scramble to help and collect the rolling contents of her hand bag. Someone asks: "are you ok?" and she says a few times: "yes, just so embarrassed". She took it pretty well actually. Just so strange how she fell, Just standing there and then next thing she's on the pavement.

All of that happened right there in front of me like 8 metres away. That was something I least expected from a lady like that.

Something like that has to make one reflect. We can walk around sometimes so far removed from those so very human possibilities of 'stacking it' (Aussie expression for crashing). Head held high, straight back, walking majestically, super duper...

There's the fear of pride getting so hurt seeing ourselves 'stack it' like that, or getting into an argument and showing our distorted angry face, or being defeated or toppled over in a scuffle or skirmish, etc.

Somehow at the base of it is a rejection based on ignorance of, or a lack of acceptance of our real nature as human beings. Pride still thinks that we are invincible super dupers or something.

Pride tries so hard not to show our upset emotion at being defeated or being by bothered by others or having an accident, 'stacking it' or otherwise... 

When seeing someone having stacked it, somehow though, our essence underneath it all recognises the more human natural reaction, because it knows it to be real and sees the courage in that person of having accepted the accident, rather than the proud person inebriated with 'super duper' images of him or herself showing nothing or being angry and not wanting any help. We know those latter attitudes come from the false self-image projections of pride that are not aligned with reality.

We tend to find such a person more likable than the no emotion or very angry person, because they show more humility and understanding than the arrogance of the 'no emotion' person, which later one day if we get to know that 'no emotion' person they will hit us one good, where as the humble person is not likely to do that.

What is quite funny we are even too embarrassed to release a natural 'gas ball' when we are in the work toilets, for fear of being heard. No one can really complain it is the right place to do it.

End (3501).