what can you do really?

What can you do when you're just skipping or roller skating down the sidewalk, minding your own business and then next thing you know, you've hit that uneven patch and you go down faster than you thought possible?

Or when you're wrestling with your older brother while waiting in the car for your mom to come out of the store and without any warning the wind is somehow knocked out of you and you're left gasping for air?

Or when stuff happens that really isn't your business to tell the world, but this thing sucks and that things sucks and the only thing you can tell others is about how you failed, no, cosmically failed your calculus test, as in the worst test score of your educational life.

And the falling and gasping and failing were all in the same day.

What can you do really? Like, nothing. Except maybe study for the next test. And bandage up the scraped knee and wait for that fish out of water feeling to go away so you can begin to breath again. And hope for the best. Whatever that is.