I get it now, I really get it now...
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 2:10 pm
Yesterday was a great day. It started out with a crappy day at work, I get home and my wife had a crappy day at work too. She was napping on the couch, totally spent (both kids are off to college, she went back to work after a few years and not used to the daily grind just yet). I left her to her comfort with the dog sleeping on her legs too and decided to take a buggy ride in the western country side of NJ, farm roads, horse tracts, up by the Delaware river, across into southern Pennsylvania, etc., about a 75 mile loop - 78 degrees, clear, no wind, perfect day, absolutely perfect day.
If found myself feeling something different yesterday... it took me back to my biker days from 20-30 years ago, that free feeling you would get by just getting out on your bike, one with the machine, one with the road, one in your own head (really a feeling that is you can't share with anyone that hasn't felt that) - I had that feeling and it was amazing. I was listening to Zeppelin on the stereo, and I had a biker out of body feeling, the first time in a car I've ever felt that.
I since don't ride a bike anymore after an accident 20-30 years ago and that carefree feeling and nerve was never the same - I felt that again yesterday and it was something I thought I would never feel again - it took a buggy to bring that feeling back to me. I acquired my buggy in June of this year, my first one - and in all of the cars, convertibles, and play things I've owned in decades and decades, I never felt that feeling in a non-bike vehicle like I did yesterday. Although I have been driving my buggy this summer, I realized I hadn't really been riding my buggy. It took me back to a feeling that I thought I'd never experience again (I forgot what I forgot was best).
Sorry to get so metaphysical and in my head with with this, but I get it now, I really get it now....
If found myself feeling something different yesterday... it took me back to my biker days from 20-30 years ago, that free feeling you would get by just getting out on your bike, one with the machine, one with the road, one in your own head (really a feeling that is you can't share with anyone that hasn't felt that) - I had that feeling and it was amazing. I was listening to Zeppelin on the stereo, and I had a biker out of body feeling, the first time in a car I've ever felt that.
I since don't ride a bike anymore after an accident 20-30 years ago and that carefree feeling and nerve was never the same - I felt that again yesterday and it was something I thought I would never feel again - it took a buggy to bring that feeling back to me. I acquired my buggy in June of this year, my first one - and in all of the cars, convertibles, and play things I've owned in decades and decades, I never felt that feeling in a non-bike vehicle like I did yesterday. Although I have been driving my buggy this summer, I realized I hadn't really been riding my buggy. It took me back to a feeling that I thought I'd never experience again (I forgot what I forgot was best).
Sorry to get so metaphysical and in my head with with this, but I get it now, I really get it now....