MUSINGS FROM MIDLIFE
My Stories
Finding Your Tribe
"Five types of people you want to surround yourself with: the inspired, the passionate, the motivated, the grateful and the open minded." Unknown.....And the sixth, the cyclists.
I leave home thirty minutes earlier to meet the bunch. Some would call this crazy considering I could start closer to home. And yet in spite of the extra time and kilometers, joining this exceptional club has been my foundation into cycling this year.
Easing into this sport gently would be a gross understatement of how my approach has unfolded.
Some of my co-workers, endowed with psychological and behavioral degrees, have jokingly used the word obsessive.
The Journey
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice — though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you did not stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognised as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do — determined to save the only life you could save.