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Anybody ever had any luck becoming less CLUMSY?
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:12 pm
by dontfeartheringo
Tired of running into door frames when I'm tired. Tired of bashing my head against cabinet doors and van roofs. Tired of dropping things.
Anyone here ever find a way to be less of a goddamn lummox?
Re: Anybody ever had any luck becoming less CLUMSY?
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:21 pm
by Dovira
I don't know, I think I'm clumsy because my mind is just never there. Like I rise to get up but then my attention is already at the place I'm going or on some other thought so I bang around my limbs awkwardly. Probably self-consciousness doing that as well. I'm a lot in my head, simply put.
But I also drop things. Usually because I'm playing with them though. Like flipping my phone over in my hand.
Re: Anybody ever had any luck becoming less CLUMSY?
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:35 pm
by dontfeartheringo
My mind is definitely on other things. My wife was watching me try to do housework recently, and clearly my Attention Deficit executive function issues have been exacerbated by the pandemic anxieties.
Anyone else do this? Start washing dishes, go to the pantry to get a scrubby brush, remember that I was going to soak some black beans today, get out the black beans, start towards the counter where the big bowls are, realize the dogs need to be fed. Why is the tap running? OH, dishes. Try to resume dishes, think "This would be less boring with some music on," and go looking for the smart speaker thing. Realize there's a package with a record in it on the porch! Grab it and bring it inside, think about making coffee, WHY IS THE TAP RUNNING?
Careen off of door frame....
repeat.
Re: Anybody ever had any luck becoming less CLUMSY?
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:46 pm
by ErickC
I'm afraid that all I can do is commiserate.
I once managed to face plant myself into a wall back in my flour milling days. It was 3 a.m. and I was walking back to the control room from shaking out the mill, and my eyelids were feeling kind of heavy, so I did that thing where you close them most of the way but you look forward and up just enough that you can kinda see where you're going through the narrow slits left open, and my clumsy ass didn't see the control room wall coming. And I was half out of it, so it was just a sudden sensation of "why me am feel pains? There am being wall!"
I guess it's good I wasn't headed towards a manlift. That could have been fatal.
Re: Anybody ever had any luck becoming less CLUMSY?
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:20 pm
by PASTA
dontfeartheringo wrote: Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:12 pm
Tired of running into door frames when I'm tired. Tired of bashing my head against cabinet doors and van roofs. Tired of dropping things.
Anyone here ever find a way to be less of a goddamn lummox?
NOPE.
Re: Anybody ever had any luck becoming less CLUMSY?
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:21 pm
by PASTA
dontfeartheringo wrote: Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:35 pm
My mind is definitely on other things. My wife was watching me try to do housework recently, and clearly my Attention Deficit executive function issues have been exacerbated by the pandemic anxieties.
Anyone else do this? Start washing dishes, go to the pantry to get a scrubby brush, remember that I was going to soak some black beans today, get out the black beans, start towards the counter where the big bowls are, realize the dogs need to be fed. Why is the tap running? OH, dishes. Try to resume dishes, think "This would be less boring with some music on," and go looking for the smart speaker thing. Realize there's a package with a record in it on the porch! Grab it and bring it inside, think about making coffee, WHY IS THE TAP RUNNING?
Careen off of door frame....
repeat.
YUP
Re: Anybody ever had any luck becoming less CLUMSY?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 12:02 am
by enframed
dontfeartheringo wrote: Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:12 pm
Tired of running into door frames when I'm tired. Tired of bashing my head against cabinet doors and van roofs. Tired of dropping things.
Regarding all of the above: figuratively or literally?
Re: Anybody ever had any luck becoming less CLUMSY?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 5:12 am
by ntac
yoga, meditation, more fiber. this will work.
Re: Anybody ever had any luck becoming less CLUMSY?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 6:17 am
by A_Man_Who_Tries
The only luck I ever had was as a kid, when it was confirmed I was short-sighted. That dealt with it.
Re: Anybody ever had any luck becoming less CLUMSY?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 6:33 am
by Dave N.
I’m a terribly clumsy person, and a lot of it has to do with self-absorption and unawareness of things around me. Meditation sure helps. So does exercise. I’m less clumsy than I used to be, and I think it has a lot to do with those two things getting me out of my own head.