Pedalling

Biking is freeing as I always believed it to be. It has become an addition to the areas in my life that I can control, not the other way around.

In biking, as you pedal, you move farther. And as you move farther, your mind flies high beyond where birds could reach. Unlike traveling for work, which excites me more than sitting in the office 8 hours straight, biking affords me the control of where to go and at what speed I intend to do so.

Three months into 2021, this year has been steadier than 2020. I was unemployed most of the first half of 2020; this year, however, I decided to keep my job despite the odds. Nonetheless, what is apparent as a lesson from the two consecutive years in my early adulthood period is the temporal nature of life. Likely the same excitement on your very first pedal of the day, the emotional ups and downs in between, and the moment you remove your feet from your cyclic machine one at a time.

Biking is freeing. But, like life, it is not complete-happiness guaranteed.

But it’s unbelievably satisfying, the way the wind swings your hair and garments, and how your spirit flies with it. I realize while I am not a bikers’-club material, I am good at biking in the standards I set for myself. I am better at meditating while biking. Perhaps, it’s what completes my weekends, a literal long escape from everything amid the tolerable body pain during the process and rightly after.

While doing the dishes after dinner tonight, Sky positioned herself a meter away from me, obviously in her protective/observant/caring mode. She was near, but not in an intrusive way. She’s confident in her location, and I am too.

Relating it to humans and the idea I ironed out in this entry, it is okay not to obsess over proximity.

We are bikers on this planet, and we can be freewheeling as we possibly can. We can plant our hearts some kilometers away and still care real hard. We can drink coffee with a particular coffee addict in mind and still enjoy the taste of it the way we ought to.

All this feeling can traverse back and forth after cutting someone off and meeting someone new. Needless to say: pedal!