Roman Walking

Roman walks and falls and gets up and walks and falls and gets up, and walks and falls and gets up

and walks

It’s beautiful and it’s simple and it looks like it’d be painful,

but for Roman, it’s not

He doesn’t judge his ability to walk.

He doesn’t hang his head and sigh, breathing in his failure when he falls

He doesn’t rate himself on a scale of 1 to 10

He doesn’t try to improve

He is constantly improving

He doesn’t see his tendency to fall as a problem or something to be solved.

He understands that it is an inescapable part of walking.

Walking=falling

Falling =walking.

He doesn’t judge how many times or which directions he falls or the frequency with which his butt hits the ground

he just begins to stand as soon as he falls.

As soon as he falls, he’s on his way to standing and walking again

He walks

he falls

He begins to stand

He doesn’t clean himself up or dust himself off

he just starts walking again.

Thank you Roman for your commitment to walking

thank you for your energy and tenacity

thank you for understanding and accepting so easily the nature of walking

and falling

When I see you doing this, I ask myself

why would I ever judge my falls when they are in fact my walking?

why would I even bother to dust myself off when I could be on my way to standing?

on my way to walking again

Why would I waste one second on judgement or sadness or concern?

There is more walking to do 

—Julian Mocine-Mcqueen