As a kid I really thought this was going to be a thing. A strategy I needed to make it through life. As if it were going to be a day-to-day skill I would use like brushing my teeth.
It turns out in my 35 years, I've never had to stop, drop, and roll. Not once. Though after a few cocktails, this might be one way to describe my less than stellar dance moves!
But seriously, I've never caught fire and needed to react quickly with the well-rehearsed procedure of stopping, dropping, and rolling. But I have had to apply the concept in other ways.
Throughout life we develop and refine a variety of response strategies for handling unfamiliar or stressful situations. This is a more sophisticated range than merely fight or flight. We learn to distinguish between situations in which we have time to make a decision and situations in which we need to respond immediately.
Stop, drop, and roll is a metaphoric strategy we use when we have to act fast.
It helps us to recognize immediate danger and to respond quickly for our own good. With this response strategy, we are able to prioritize our safety. There are times we have to act quickly to extinguish a situation that could rapidly spread and cause more damage.
It may not be as often as implied in elementary school but every now and then you might need to pause, assume a safe position, and extinguish a threat. For your own wellbeing.
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