Sunday, February 7, 2016

Piece of mind or piece of heart?

People used to ask me who am I. Time to time i give them my name, time to time i ignore the question. But really, who am I? I'm Nobody. I'm just the neighborhood biker. People ask me what i do in my spare time. I go cycle with my cycling friends. Who are they? They are people like me. We cycle for the pure fun and pleasure of cycling. We go to places, we explore routes. We see places, and we see each other, we discover new routes, we challenge our skills. This is how we develop our fitness, our skills, and as whole as cyclists. Frequently i get asked how do you manage all this. They would not understand the real answer. The real answer is simple. I do not manage anything alone. I manage it, with my best buddy in life, with my one and only trusted soulmate. I manage it with my bike. The bike is not just a machine, the bike is something more. The bike is a partner. The bike is a soulmate. The bike is special. You and the bike, alone, are nothing. You without the bike are nothing, the bike without you is nothing. Where the strength for all this comes from? Once you are on the bike and ride it, you become symbiots, once you become symbiots, you share your powers with each other. This is when the magic happens. Together, you are very powerful machine for adventures. You can never tame the bike, like you tame your pet dog. It will never tame. You cannot enforce obedience on your bike, it will never obey. Your bike is an equal partner, not your slave. As long as you respect it as such and treat it as such, both of you, together, will do the greatest of adventures, and share the magic and power, once you lose this respect it is all over. Why i do Cycle? For the challenge, for the pleasure, for the adventure, for the fun. Is it Just a sport for me? No. It is something more. It is my way of life. This is my passion. This is what my heart beats for. So who am I? I'm Nobody. I'm just the neighborhood biker.