- There's a cool secret hand sign from biker to biker. But don't give it to scooters. You'll just embarrass yourself.
- Bugs can smack into at any time, in any spot. Even between your sunglasses and your eyeball. I know from experience.
- Even when it's 97 degrees out, you have nature's air conditioning when you're going 60 miles an hour.
- Bruce Springsteen and late 80s/early 90s hair bands make for the best road music.
- You learn to love your true self more and more each time you ride. More on that below.
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| Thumbs up for jean vests! |
We all spend WAY too much time trying to live up to other people's standards. We also spend WAY too much time measuring ourselves as compared to others. We don't do it on purpose, it just happens that way. And it happens a little more each day until one day, maybe when you're in you're late 30s, you realize:
This is stupid. And I won't do it anymore.
On the outside looking in, my dad might be right: owning a motorcycle could be one of the five worst decisions one could make in life. But on the inside looking out, it has allowed me to be me in a cool new way. It's that freedom I always
talk about and my friends laugh with me about.
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| The night before a ride, I just google map some place random. Today, Hyco Lake won. And it is beautiful. |
Whenever I see a motorcyclist, I point at them and say "Look! Freedom!" And I really, really, mean it. Something happens to you when you allow yourself to be who you are, even in fun ways like owning a motorcycle. This purchase has helped me to stop measuring my worth as compared to others.
I like motorcycles and Bravo TV and hoodies and video games and Cameron Crowe movies and embarrassing myself in public so other people feel more comfortable. I am a weird person. But in the beautiful way that weird is wonderful. I know for a fact that we are all different for a bigger purpose that one day, we will all know. But I hope most of us don't wait until our late 30s to give ourselves permission to be uniquely ourselves.
Ride on, dudes.
