Old

Experience can take you many ways.  I knew the dangers because I had hurt myself before in the creek bed.  I rolled the biggest rock I have moved from the bank,  I stood and surveyed atop.  A step to fast off.  I was higher than I was remembering I was.  My knee hyper extended luckily and I didn't face plant the bed rock.  I knew the dangers gingerly crossing the stream.  Would have been bloody and probably unconscious but for one thing.

I love to ski spent ten years every summer out on the lakes.  Took to the mountains and recognized the water.  When I hit that speed of the boat I recognized it I went right down the hill.  I didn't know how to stop.  On the water I pushed the limits and would crash or here and there jump off the ski to the beach.  Didn't know where the brakes were.  Watching I found them.  First time down the hill I just dropped the rope and fell in a large pile at the ski lift.

I never skied the frozen water as much.  I found myself once in moguls.  I was actually doing ok just surprised to be there.  Not a place I was looking for.  I was young and even as I saw I was ok I wanted to exit.  I was young and did not evaluate risk well, If you do when your young you are doing it wrong.  I turned my body to the right to clear snow powder.  My left knee continued left.  What I remember I saw my knee separate.  With layers of clothing I did not see this.  This is what I remember.  The oddest sensation of parts of my body going different ways then they were designed.

For ten years I called it my bad knee until I cut dairy from my diet.  Ten years now I feel the same strength in them.  I have very good muscle memory.  It is what allowed me to become a vegan.  I remember in my muscles the forty years of food I ate,  I don't miss anything.  Oysters still my favorite food if I have not eaten them in twelve years.  No two oysters ever tasted the same to me.  I preferred them raw.  With fine resolution of my muscle memory they still stand out. Yum each one, never got that bad one they warn of I guess luckily considering how many I ate.

My knee knew how to hyperextend cause I am old and in this case it saved me today.  Don't think it will always or does always.  I know now that sometimes it does.  My old bad knee hurts a bit, but at almost 50 I should have been bloodied on the creek bed.  I thank God I lead with my bad knee that had been there before.  I know the dangers had I lead with the right I would not be writing this.  We see how old I get.  I'm good at evaluating risk