Statistically speaking

I remember a cartoon strip from my childhood in England, it was about a character called Andy Capp, I think it's still going strong. In one of the strips Andy is drunk and trips and falls as he walks out of the pub. There's a passerby who laughs at him and Andy just picks himself up, dusts off his jacket and carries on, saying " statistically you get up one time more than the number of times you fall down".

All of us go through phases in our lives when we trip and fall, embarrasing ourselves, hurting ourselves and others too. We feel miserable and it often seems like we will be that way forever, down and injured with the whole world laughing at us.

It is at times like these that Andy, the drunk. working  class  character of the cartoon strip reminds me Guru-like of the truth, that each time that we fall, the choice is always with us, to make the effort to get up, dust ourselves off, laugh along with those who laugh at us and get on with life.

For statistically speaking as long as we breathe and our hearts pound with life, we get up one time more than the number of times we fall down.