Sometimes you fall but just to rest. you get up again when you’re ready.

People walk long stretches of marathons and still finish. Nobody records it as a collapse. It gets recorded as a finishing time.

There's a reading of a bad patch in which every stop counts as a failure and the only acceptable state is forward motion. It costs a great deal and predicts very little about who gets there.

Getting up when you're ready assumes readiness is a real signal rather than an excuse, and it is one.

It tends to arrive quietly: a morning when the thing you've been dreading feels merely unpleasant instead of impossible.