Posted notes: The Fall

Today, I fell for the first time in November.  As I descended upon the green grass, I couldn't help but see a lush cloud of evergreen delight approach me.  This luscious bedding appeared as tastily and heavenly as a vanilla injection on a sultry, sweaty day.  I was powerless to avoid the fall, and I surrendered as a victim of clumsy circumstances.  Face first, I fell from folly falling forward on foliage (Haha!!  Success!), laughing to myself while I laid prone on someone's property.  Certainly, this was a curious scene to witness a man overjoyed and giggling to a point of buffoonery while he appeared to be resting on someone's lawn at 1:30pm in the afternoon.  I literally laid there and laughed at the curious scene in which I happened to be the leading man.

Of course, a rush of reveries invaded my cerebral, and I thought about the countless possibilities of mailmen committing the same acts of comedic bravery for choosing to remain on the lawn and absorb the humiliation of not being the svelte, graceful gazelles of the community as many consider us to be.  How many letter carriers have stumbled on a tree's roots, fallen, and laughed hysterically as they rolled in the leaves?  Admittedly, I'd pay money for a reenactment.

Sure, I could have prevented myself from falling, but I couldn't remember the last time I allowed myself to be humbled by gravity's impact.  Why fight the fall when I could enjoy it?