Like Riding A Bike

"I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like.
It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good.
I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.
You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything Everything if you want things."
--- Syd Barrett

Tonight I rode my bike home in the dark. I had lights on of course. I suppose that sentence would have had more clarity had I said, "I rode my bike at nightime." ----Nah, that still lacks clarity.

Anyways..... I think you should ride your bike. (If you don't have one, visit a pawn shop or garage sale and get one) A bike ride will teach you a lot about life. Whatever city, whatever street you take, however long the ride or far the distance. You will learn about life.

Think about how quickly you tend to ride. Are you the person who takes their sweet time on your ride, or are you the person who is constantly seeking ways to get their faster and more effeciently?

Are you living life super fast? Slow down, your missing it.
Are you living your life to melodramatic? Take into consideration the people waiting for you to catch up.

Where do you ride? Do you tend to take the back roads and avoid being seen on the main roads by drivers, or do you always ride the main roads and even ride on the street with the cars?

Does your life revolve around who is seeing you do what? Take the back roads sometimes, balance your life with humility.
Are you always on the backroads of life, trying to go un-noticed? Everyone should shine sometimes. Stick your neck out and let em see you every now and then.

How do you approach hills? Are you like me? You hate going up them and try to get up them as fast as possible so you can zoom down the other side?

Do you hate the hills of your life and just complain about em til you get over them? Take a break every now and then. Take a look around. That hill might be there so you can take time to notice something on the way up that you've never seen before.
When the good times of life come like a downhill coast, do you zoom so fast down em that they seem to go by too quick? Remember. Zooming through anything is fun. But at the bottom of the hill is the beginning of another. Enjoy the good times, cos they go by fast.

I am not trying to sound wise or invoke some sort of truth that you don't already know. These are just things I thought about on by ride through the dark streets tonight.

Last thought?

Like a bike ride, it's always fun to take different journeys in life, but there's no feeling like coming home.

"Roam if you must, but come home when you've had enough."
--- Slug