Stairways to..........? (Part One)
I've had a thing with stairs,
ever since I was a little boy.
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Starting as soon as I was old enough
to go down a set of stairs by myself, perhaps from the age of 3 or 4, I had an unconquerable urge. The urge was to jump, from the highest stair that I could, down to the bottom landing.
My room was on the second floor
of our north Toronto home ("north" only for that time - it would be considered fairly "south" Toronto nowadays LOL. Even our little home from those days was torn down long ago and replaced with a monster home on the, by now, prime Toronto real estate). Beginning as a toddler, I wanted to jump at least the last couple of steps, and 5 or 6 steps by the time I was five.
This infuriated my father for some reason.
I was told to go back upstairs and to come down one step at time. And, if on my way back down, I "forgot", and once again jumped from the last few steps up, I was commanded to go up and down the stairs one hundred times slowly and one step at a time.
Thus began a battle of wills :-)
(3) (those stairs were plane jane, looking something like the pixabay.com image above)
Who's to say now
if his concern was for my safety - or perhaps just because he didn't think that it was the "proper" thing to do. At any rate, my toddler self felt that it was an intolerable imposition upon my free will, LoL.
My supreme confidence knew that this would never happen to me:
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As you can perhaps imagine,
I spent a good portion of my formative years going up and down a stairway 100 (and sometime 500) times!
Was my toddler self a rebel just for kicks?
Or was I learning something for the coming crypto battles
I can't remember now
how the matter eventually resolved. I suspect that the tension left the conflict when my father began traveling a lot on business and was not home so much.
My mother, not being so strict about that sort of thing,
sometimes I was able to indulge my toddler follies freely. And eventually I matured a little and learned not to do it when Dad was at home. Now, a lifetime later, my knees will no longer take it anyway. So the matter is resolved from my end. I don't, however, know what my father would have to say about it, LoL.
Was it all a waste of time?
Should I attribute my strong heart in my old age to those early aerobics?
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- images (1) through (5) are from pixabay.com
- please stay tuned for the exciting Part Two of "Stairways to.................?"
because there is a distinct possibility that @twiceuponatime may, as they say, "once" again supply the images!!!!
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Stairway to Heaven? (Stay tuned for an exciting Part Two to find out!)
ouzo and out,
@onceuponatime
I think your father trained you for...
Obedience (to God will)
In speaking of Christ’s humility, Saint Paul said that Jesus was obedient to God His Father “unto death, even death on a cross” (Phil 2.8). In truth, Jesus obeyed God in all that He did.
All that Jesus has and is, He has received from God the Father. From all eternity, the Son has listened to the Father in order to do His work and to accomplish His will. The will of God is that the Son should become a man, take up the sins of the world and die in the flesh in order to raise the dead that “nothing would be lost.” Jesus has accomplished this in divine and perfect obedience, giving the example to all.
There is no degradation in obedience to God, nothing shameful or demeaning. On the contrary, to do the will of God is glory and life. It is the highest dignity of man, his greatest joy and delight (cf. Ps 119). It is the way of perfection for all, even for the man Jesus Himself.
Although He was a Son, He learned obedience through what He suffered, and being made perfect He became the source of salvation to all who obey Him (Heb 5.8–9).
Disobedience to God and His Son Jesus Christ is the source of all sin. Refusal to submit to God in all things is the cause of all sorrow and death. Those who hear the Gospel and fail to enter into the eternal rest of God, do so only “because of disobedience” (Heb 5–6, cf. Deut 4.29–31).
In the Orthodox spiritual tradition, obedience is a basic virtue: obedience to the Lord, to the Gospel, to the Church (Mt 18.17), to the leaders of the Church (Heb 13.7), to one’s parents and elders, to “every ordinance of man” (1 Pet 2.13, Rom 13.1), “to one another out of reverence for Christ” (Eph 6.21). There is no spiritual life without obedience, no freedom or liberation from sinful passions and lusts. To submit to God’s discipline in all of its human forms, is the only way to obtain “the glorious liberty of the children of God” (Rom 8.21). God disciplines us as His children out of His great love for us. “He disciplines us for our good, that we might share His holiness” (cf. Heb 12.3–11). Our obedience to God’s commandments and discipline is the exclusive sign of our love for Him and His Son.
"The urge was to jump, from the highest stair that I could, down to the bottom landing."
I still do that and my mum freaks out but when she isn't around its just me and my ninja skills LOL
Exactly!
Hey Brother, your post is very well-arranged @onceuponatime 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Tell me that part 2 isn't about jumping compounds walls and climbing buildings
Part Two is about "stairways."
OK, check this one out from my 2 year ago post.
Source: Do NOT elevate... Step on it instead (my 2nd post)
OR this 268 steps in Lantau Island to climb 6 months ago.
to the High Five.
Source: 📷✈️#BeautifulSunday Up, up and away to Big Buddha 😎 | 向上。向上去。找大佛 - HK013
Ouzo and out. Nice touch.
That last pic is really bizarre. I want to say it is a plant stand, but it is so thin?
I know you're referring to them as stairs.
So confusing. :)
"So confusing. :)"
ouzo and out ;-)
Great story! I enjoyed it a lot! I too have a weird relationship with stairs. Had an accident in my teenage years at school which left me with a strange left knee (no serious injury though) but whenever I find myself in front of a big stairway I see a challenge. So if you see a weird guy going up or down the stairs next to where there is also probably an escalator, well probable that's me! Anyway, thanks for the story looking forward for part 2! Cheers!!
I think you will enjoy Part Two :-)
Was it a waste of time? Absolutely not! This picture sprung to mind reading your post:
Little changes can add up to a lot and taking the stairs should be encouraged at a time where we have massive obesity issues in the developed world!
Yes, I have seen that picture before. I'm sure that it says something about our civilization - I'm just not exactly sure what :-)
Lazy Sapiens
My male friend house stairs, he is a lightweight personality, there are so many things in his house which make every person very attractive and planning for Italy and bringing these things to his house.
he made several stairs in her entire house.
I think the stairs are really interesting because these rooms are very beautiful symbols for the house.
Your boyfriend sounds like a "keeper"!
@onceuponatime Actually he's a male friend.
And the thing that you say is like the keeper, I really mean to say that there are some stairs in my male friend's house.
Hopefully you understand the matter clearly now.
I've enjoyed a lot of fun and laughed at the words that you said to me. ;D
Edited Done ;)
I guessed that, because almost all "boyfriends" are males :-)
Haha, I really enjoyed reading your stairways story part 1 and I'm very happy to read what your father did to you whenever you've tried to kick your rebel 😉
And you may now a great man with huge patience in your soul ❤️
From where did you find accurate songs to the situations? I'm not the person who watch full songs, but this song and the last song you posted maybe it was like "you can't roller skate in a buffalo yard" I watched complete of them and enjoyed 😜
Now eagerly waiting for part 2 of stairways story.
Stay blessed Sir.
PS: My upvote not worth anything but I upvoted it.
A song will play a big part in Part Two. Stay "tuned" :-)
I am, Sir. I am :-)
I used to do that too when I was a kid, jump some couple of stairs, and as I jumped I kept counting to see if I can increase the number I jumped some other time. If I am not doing that while using the stairs then I will slide off the stair railings. It was really fun then but risky, I was only enjoying the fun part of it. Happy I never got a major scar.
Perhaps it taught you to handle risk :-)
Yes it sure did, It equally made kind of fearless, till date I prefer to use the stairs than the lift.
It's Our office stairs 😍
Last few days ago, one of my colleagues quickly went downstairs and stumbled.
My colleague had to take a break for at least two weeks because he had a lot of injury on his neck and back and the CEO of our company gave him a ridiculous name. 😅 😝
That's a beautiful staircase!
These stairs in our office are very old, when our office was established, right after the very exact time, we are still using these stairs and stairs are very good. 😊