Now now, it is amazing what TCM can do.

I almost thought I was in some fortune teller’s den when the woman who was massaging me(who subsequently polka-dotted me with cuppings), started to ask me some questions which my friends would be very familiar with.

Like.

“Do you fall down often?”

GASP!

I am sure it wasn’t the bruises all over my legs that prompted the question.

“Eh how do you know?”

“You often twist your ankles when but then they are not painful and you don’t ever sprain them right?”

WAH! Blardy accurate can? My friends always wonder how I can manage to achieve such incredible feats of tripping on a straight path… and now apparently, someone has the answer. *In awe*

“How do you know?!”

“Because the way your ankles are, they are quite loose and they are way too flexible, because of your ligaments holding them together..”

She went on to explain to me in a way that it was like the elastic bands that hold my ankles together are too loose, and thus, the room for my ankles to move around is greater than normal people’s.

That’s the reason why I never seem to sprain my ankle even though I twist them all the time(like really, all the time).

That’s the reason why I always have to make extra effort to balance on heels.

That’s why I appear shaky even though I was wearing short wedges, or worse, heels.

That’s the reason why I have been tripping all these while.

That’s the reason why I have been branded clumsy by most of my friends…

That’s the reason why I was being laughed at.

The secret is now out in the open. My ankles are engineered in a way they are strung like puppets, and I have to always keep them in place so they don’t get out of position.

WAH! So it’s not my fault I am clumsy!!!!

Yay.

It is just so comforting to hear that.

I didn’t say that, my therapist did, and I didn’t make it up.

Yay!

I am not clumsy!!!