If you are anything like me, the chances are you cannot go a single day without dropping something. Don’t worry, you are not alone. In fact, I believe there are billions of us all around the world. Read on for some re-assurance..

It isn’t something I am worried about, and it isn’t something I feel I need to address in any way. It’s just annoying, and it can really turn my mood from one of a positive nature to negative. Maybe you feel the same, and just wish there was a way to train yourself to stop dropping things. I know I have felt like that on many an occasion.

For me it started many years ago, the day I was born I think. As I cannot remember not being like this. I have always been clumsy, and people have picked me up on it several times, but I guess now, I just go with the flow, but I still get annoyed.

I think I possibly take after my mum, as she is very similar. We tend to do the same things, and both possess a lack of co-ordination at times, and we do laugh about it. Maybe it is hereditary, who knows! I just know that I have it, and am likely to have it for the rest of my life. I have read in places that there is a way to train yourself, to train your mind, but I think its all a gimmick. If you are born clumsy, its something you will live with.

It isn’t just the dropping of things that gets me, it’s the way in which I do it. I don’t only drop things, but I throw them onto the ground while trying to stop them from falling. It also takes several attempts at picking something up, or even opening a door. Let me explain a typical situation to you..

I walk to the kitchen to make myself some lunch, so as I approach the kitchen door, I out-stretch my arm and reach for the door handle. I take two, maybe three swings of my hand past the handle before making contact, then I grip the handle and open the door. Once in the kitchen, I approach the fridge and take the usual two or three attempts to open the door. I pick up the spread or any other ingredients and move towards the table. As I put the things on the table, something slips, but I manage to stop it from falling. I reach with my other hand to grab it, then I drop it. In trying to stop it from falling, I reach out to catch it, but end up hitting it and propelling it at a greater speed towards the floor.

Its not always making lunch that I drop things either, as most of the time I am OK. But at any point of any day, the chances are, I will drop something. And it seems to me that all items have a fascination with the floor. Items seem to gain gravity once you are holding them, and they try with all their will to slip from your hands, rendering you powerless to stop them from falling. Nowadays, if something begins to fall, I just let it, as there is no point trying to stop it.

Another thing is that when something falls, it bounces off in all manor of directions, hitting everything on its way to the floor, and of course, it will always find a way to end up in the most awkward place to retrieve it. Under a table or a bed, or on the one place on the floor where there is dirt. It is laughable, but so very true, so very often. Items will never fall onto a lower level, they will always bounce and slide and end up on the floor, without fail.

I am not having a grumble or a moan, I’m just sharing some thoughts, as it makes me laugh at time, and maybe there are others out there that share in this also. I’d like to think it makes us unique, but in reality it just makes us clumsy, oh well, here’s to us :)

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