You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought...

Janette Rallison
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We have all heard that you must be careful when doing something. You can break an important bone or hurt your back or make your neck worse or worse. And, as such, we all take such things seriously and try to avoid them as much as possible. But, what about those things we do? It is those things we do every day that could hurt us.

I used to perform a backflip in front of my class and would often do other flips and tricks in the hallway and other places where I knew there was no one around to see me. One day, after a particularly impressive stunt, I realized that I had twisted my ankle pretty bad and it would probably be a long time before I could do such tricks again. This made me realize how important it was to be careful and how foolish it was to jump around like a fool so freely!

Source: Life, Love, And The Pursuit Of Free Throws

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