Thats one of the things I love about riding:
First, it drains your stress… this takes the longest. There’s a whole lot of bullshit in life that gets built up. Sometimes, it takes hours for it to all go away. The road will fix it eventually. Just keep riding. Cracked blacktop, open throttle and good music at 75 mph will cure about any evil I know of.
Then, It opens your mind. You start to see things how they are. How you want to make em. The ideas flow again. Ideas about family, life, work. That’s stage 2. once stage 1 is fixed, stage 2 goes quickly into stage 3:
Then, it opens your soul. In my experience, I start feeling again. Imagining. Loving life. Feeling Life. Man, its the best part. You start breathing it in, ready to kick ass again. Ready to be a good dad. Ready to make some money. Ready for whatever life is gonna throw at you, because you’re not young…. you know life is gonna throw shit. Life…. bring that shit on. I’ll own you.
That’s when music starts sounding good on the road. I don’t care if its from your ipod, or your batwing faring stereo.
Once those 3 are fixed, man… youre a human being again.
It’s been a long winter. I need to be a human being again. Real Men get life pressures that only a man might know about, if he’s a man.
I think I’m heading out to ballarat this weekend, after my BACA child ride. I’ll go cheap, and hopefully get all three. I’d be happy if the first one happens, but what will power me up for weeks is if the other 2 happen. Only the road knows if that’s gonna be. Can’t wait.
Great post. What a simple way to define it: I love riding because it makes me human.
I wrote a similar post (http://www.bikerschurch.com/robdale/2010/03/29/wh…
Anyway, great stuff!
Four wheels can move one's body.
Two wheels can move one's body, mind, and spirit!