'IT'S KINDA BRING'N ME DOWN'

‘IT’S KINDA BRING’N ME DOWN’

I am going to slough this post off to ‘my current state.’

There is a song I like.

It is an ‘oldie.’

A friend turned me onto it.

There is a line that goes, ‘You know, the same trip every day, it’s kinda bringing me down.’

‘The same trip’ is not my rides.

I am in control of that.

‘The same trip’ is what is online.

‘It’s kinda bring’n me down.’

There has to be a ‘revolution.’

It is the ‘same trip every day.’

Look at me going down this hill.

Look at me going up this hill.

Look at what I am riding.

Look what I eat.

Look at this gear.

Look who I am with.

Argh.

I know this is not just confined to cycling.

But I think cycling has so many more opportunities, and so many other options.

I think ‘we’ can tell different stories.

I am not sure what they are.

Hey, I am guilty.

100%

The whole ‘people who live in glass houses’ thing.

But I am trying to start from somewhere.

I have to.

For me.

‘It’s kinda bring’n me down.’

Insert tapping fingers emoji here.

‘There is another way to ride.’

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