Why Are You Clumsy?
I've always had a clumsy streak in me. Yesterday this trait had me in tears for more than one reason. After sharing this occurrence with my aunt she jokingly asked if it was because I am pregnant that I seem to be more clumsy as of late. To my knowledge pregnancy doesn't cause clumsiness but just to be sure I asked anyway. This made me wonder what is the cause of clumsiness and how can you fix it.
Searching the all mighty Google I came across the following:
- Google is a scary place, you will be paranoid if you look at some of the titles of articles...
- Elite daily wrote an article about why you are clumsy. They studied ACL injuries with athletes (non contact injuries). In the article they state: "Charles “Buz” Swanik, the University of Delaware assistant professor who led the study, reaffirms the study's conclusion on UDaily: These results suggest that slower processing speed and reaction time, as well as lower visual and verbal memory performance may predispose certain individuals to errors in coordination during physical activity that can lead to injury " in other words you get distracted, you don't react as fast and then you get clumsy. According to the article there is a cure to clumsiness, which is mostly brain exercises.For more information on this article click here.
- A scarier article was written by Healthline. In this article they mention a few different reasons to why people become clumsy starting from the previously mentioned distraction and slow response time then moving on to strokes, seizures, drugs and alcohol, anxiety and stress, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, not getting enough sleep, arthritis, growing, vision problems, Dyspraxia, in pregnancy hormones, fatigue, and forgetfulness are causes and then my all time favorite scare the unwanted brain tumor. In this article there is no cure only advise to go to the doctor if the symptoms for each of the above mentioned worsens. for more information click here.
I was going to do more searches but to be honest I'm afraid of what I might find. You can continue the search where I left off here.
Now for the reason I was brought to tears yesterday. As some of you may know I'm living with my better half Daniel. While he's at work I'm on Steemit, cooking or cleaning the house. Yesterday after posting my article I decided to make his favorite dish, Lasagna.
So the rest of the morning I spent preparing the dish. I then cleaned up and just before Daniel would leave work I put it in the oven. It was done sooner than I thought so in fear of it burning in the hot oven I decided to put it in the microwave to keep it hot while Daniel was on his way home.
I had just finished making the salad when Daniel pulled up. So I open the microwave to take the lasagna out... I don't know how or why it happened but the microwave tilted and the lasagna and the microwave plate (microwave was brand new) fell out and shattered right next to my feet. Scolding hot food was all over me and I was surrounded by glass. All I could do was stand there with the biggest expression of shock on my face... Did I mention I was not wearing any shoes?
Daniel waked into the house and was looking worried because the moment I saw him I burst into tears. I finally felt my feet being on fire and the small shards of glass that had cut my skin. I was still too afraid to move and started shaking uncontrollably. In short I was in shock. Daniel continuously told me that he wasn't mad at me and I knew that but I couldn't speak. I was in pain physically and emotionally. The masterpiece I spent all day to create was now ruined, I had yet again broken something. In all the time Daniel and I have been living together I have broken about 10 glass items through clumsiness. I was starting to become more and more expensive.
I never used to be this clumsy. Sure every now and then I would either burn or cut myself while cooking but that is the danger of the trade. After thinking for a while I concluded that my ear pressure is probably still off from being sick.
Here is to hoping that I recover from this clumsiness soon.
Till next time
xoxo
@thegoldencookie