Whats the bike got to do with this?.
Would be a perfectly good question, nothing is the answer, I just bought it to cheer my miserable ass up.
New years eve, as you do. I sent out the usual texts wishing people the best. One came back with a very sad message!..
If you read what I write regularly, you may remember a post I did, with regards to meeting up with a fellow Brit in Warsaw and treating him to a concert, a tribute band to Pink Floyd and a hotel room each for the night.
Colin was his name you see. He returned the favor by giving me a book about Poland and places to see. He also gave me a book about Pink Floyd.
Colin was my first friend here in this strange country I am in, my first English speaking one anyway. Colin died 1st December 2018 is the message that returned to my phone!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know Colin would approve of this post.
Colin opened up when I met him in Warsaw, it was like the floodgates opened on his life, he told me everything he could cram in to 1 night. And this is why my title reads as above - "Never leave it to late!"..........
Colin had been in an abusive relationship in the UK for 25 years. His ex wife also cheated on him numerous times. When his last child left home, and she cheated again, Colin moved out from her forever!....
He had a house in Spain, and his ex was making life difficult for him to sell it, and that is whilst he was here in Poland, with his new wife. That bitch made his life hell, and he wished he had left her 20 years ago.
Whilst free here and living on a pension, Colin was hard pushed for cash, hence me treating him to that night out in Warsaw, what are friends for right?.
He said if he could do it all again, it would be different, though hey, hindsight is a wonderful thing. My message to you the reader, is do it now, do what is best for you, and don't let it wait.
There is nothing stopping you from doing anything you want.
I once set off for Thailand with a camera and a small bag of clothes, around 2004. £800 was all I had with me or close to $1000 US. I bought a secondhand laptop, rented a room for 2 months at the Long stay Hotel in Jomtien Pattaya, and stayed there for a couple of years. Returning home with many thousands of £'s.
It’s easy to look back and second-guess oneself. Truth is, there is always an infinite number of alternative choices that each of us could have made, and the older we are, the higher the number of roads not taken by default, by choice, by ignorance, or by sheer stupidity. What’s interesting is that we tend to assume that the road not taken would have been better, that in that alternative reality we would have been happier, richer, etc etc. But what is to say that we would not have ended up in a ditch, been blown up by a bomb, caught a deadly disease, or simply died an early death? Here again the alternatives are endless. We are the sum total of our past choices and experiences, and it is what we do with our battle scars what really counts. One thing is sure: as long as we’re alive we’re not done screwing up. By the same token we’re also not done making choices that express the best parts of us. It’s a mixed bag. I’m sorry that your new year started with learning of the death of a friend. Tomorrow may be a better day. Or it may be a shitty day. Sometimes we just drag our sorry arses around and feel like a complete waste of space. Sometimes we’re on top of the world, we bring moments of grace to someone in need, or we realize how lucky we are to have someone in our life who will put up with our bullshit day in day out. You got a new bike, it’s part of who you are. You probably live your life the way you ride your bike: reckless, bold, deliberate and free. Now your friend is free. he is the wind, he is the sky, he is the trees and the meadows and the clouds. Ride in his honor. Just tuck the road map he gave you in the back pocket of your mind, you never know when it might come in handy.
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Fantastic comment, and do I ride my bikes like I stole them? YES is the answer to that one. :-)
Thanks for the nudge in the right direction.
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Very sad news for you my condolences mate. So true don't leave things to late as time passes us by so quick.
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Thanks my friend, and indeed it does pass by so fast, and in the blink of an eye we vanish.
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Yes but they also say hindsight is 20/20. It's easy to assume what the right thing to do was after it happened but it's also hard to predict the future.
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Indeed. :-)
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