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If you ask the question why didn't she drop the cachous to fight, the answer is nobody does unless they have received specific combat training. I once held a bowl of jell-o over my head while kicking the crap out of a guy who tried to grab me when I was going into a party. And it makes me feel like an ass. I don't even like Jello. Still extraordinarily common. It's not a choice you make. Divesting yourself of things that might hamper you is a choice you make. It's a natural habit in almost no one.
So here's a perfect example. If you ever learn to water ski they tell you that if you fall to let go of the rope. Otherwise you get dragged tumbling about getting hit in the face with your skis until you either let go or die. Really simple, very important thing. Let go of the rope.
Nobody lets go of the rope. Nobody. It isn't until after being dragged like that behind the boat about a dozen times do you start to let go of the rope immediately. And even if you have been doing it professionally for 30 years, there are still times you don't let go of the rope. It can kill you not to do it, and people still die from exactly that every summer. And nobody knows why we don't do it. Everything was okay, then it wasn't, and you hold on to the rope because you were holding on to the rope. That's why. It went from a blast to a survival situation, and no part of you is replaying what your instructor said to do. Not until your body gets used to the emergency situation.
She held on to the cachous because she got no instruction from her brain to do otherwise. If it had been a watermelon she likely would have held on to the watermelon. It's what we do. If your brain doesn't specifically tell you to do something, you don't do it. And when we are terrified our brain is busy doing other things. We can train ourselves to do it, and if we can think about it we can choose to do it. But almost nobody does it on reflex.
It's actually why there are as many bludgeoning murders as there are. Someone gets angry and they hit someone, forgetting they had a brick, or a hammer, or the shower head they were unclogging still in their hand. And if you can slap your unfaithful boyfriend and instead accidentally stove his face in with a skillet you were about to put on the stove, you can die with a fist full of candy.
So here's a perfect example. If you ever learn to water ski they tell you that if you fall to let go of the rope. Otherwise you get dragged tumbling about getting hit in the face with your skis until you either let go or die. Really simple, very important thing. Let go of the rope.
Nobody lets go of the rope. Nobody. It isn't until after being dragged like that behind the boat about a dozen times do you start to let go of the rope immediately. And even if you have been doing it professionally for 30 years, there are still times you don't let go of the rope. It can kill you not to do it, and people still die from exactly that every summer. And nobody knows why we don't do it. Everything was okay, then it wasn't, and you hold on to the rope because you were holding on to the rope. That's why. It went from a blast to a survival situation, and no part of you is replaying what your instructor said to do. Not until your body gets used to the emergency situation.
She held on to the cachous because she got no instruction from her brain to do otherwise. If it had been a watermelon she likely would have held on to the watermelon. It's what we do. If your brain doesn't specifically tell you to do something, you don't do it. And when we are terrified our brain is busy doing other things. We can train ourselves to do it, and if we can think about it we can choose to do it. But almost nobody does it on reflex.
It's actually why there are as many bludgeoning murders as there are. Someone gets angry and they hit someone, forgetting they had a brick, or a hammer, or the shower head they were unclogging still in their hand. And if you can slap your unfaithful boyfriend and instead accidentally stove his face in with a skillet you were about to put on the stove, you can die with a fist full of candy.
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