A sombre new year for me, not too long ago a lot of people perished
in a Tsunami in parts of the world I have never been to in my entire
life and before that three local cyclist were involved in three separate
accidents and only one walked away, he is still is able to cycle
much to my amazement due to the extent of his injury!
Just this morning a good friend whom also is a great customer fell
off his new bike?!! He was heard saying "take it away, can't bare
to look" referring to his bike. The bike was O.K. but not his
hip though.
We all got things we want in life and ambitions to achieve but some
how we managed not to do it due to work, family commitments blah, blah
and more blah! Most people sit back and come up with a bunch of dumb
reasons for putting off these things, I always believe it is more difficult
to try to chase what we want to do then to come up with a reason for
an easy way out..........sometimes even myself included!
An Italian friend of mine is always lamenting that he is on medication
for a certain illness and that's the reason why he is fat and insist
that he is not losing the war against the flab. Problem is that while
he not losing the flab war or so he says, he is most definitely gaining
waistline needed to be a sumo wrestler?!!
Then another who lost 10 kilos in 2 months, to him I say well done,
but people will always say that it is dangerous to lose so much weight
in such a short period, damages the system, destroys the metabolic..........bah..........blah
and more blah!
People will always have some crap to throw at you and it is up to the
individual to defend oneself, cynicisms was around even when Moses
was walking up the mountain to find the commandments, so it's been
around for awhile. Like the old saying goes "sticks and stones
may break my bones.........." I think you know what I mean.
Then there is the perennial four letter word: WORK
We all need to do it, we all try to skip it as much as we can, most
of us hate it and definitely can't live without it!
You see we all feel much better after we sell our souls for 8 hours
a day in exchange for some paper that allows us to buys things. Corny
as it may seem ,we all do it!
It is also this four letter word that distracts us from our personal
pursuits, too tired after work, meeting a client after work, and so
on and so forth seems to be the excuse we need fill the slot!! We work
so we can afford to buy things to enjoy ourselves but instead we use
it as a reason to dodge doing what we work so hard for in the first
place??!! Sounds like a paradox? IT IS!
Its time for ponderous thoughts, what have you done hitherto and be
proud of it?? Most will agree it isn't much.
If you wanted always to ride that bike, run that marathon or finished
that triathlon, its time do it! Ride that trail and try to scale the
K2, K3 or Timbuktu-too?! Break out the gear, the bike, the tights and
the shoes..........time to get cracking, burn tarmac, melt alittle
rubber and greased that creaking elbow..........be it out on your bike
or gunning alone running a marathon. It doesn't matter as long as we
all do it and do it right!
New year abounds and resolution needs to be reviewed..........renew
it with a vengeance!
As for me, like every year my resolution is and has always been the
same and that is to ride my bike to the ground, make it worth the money
I paid for, keep all things simple and just enjoy myself!
So..........what's your call my friend?
