the first step to eternal life is you have to die
Daily bicycling is making it difficult for me to concentrate on work at the office. It's like that scene from Fight Club. An ordinary person's evening might be just as dull as working in a cubicle, but spend your nights getting punched in the face, and the contrast is dramatic.
For Tyler Durden, it's fighting with sweaty guys in a bar basement and blowing up tall buildings. For me, it's riding my bike two hours a day. When real life becomes so real, vivid and visceral, the volume gets turned down on everything else. Instead of loathing my car commute, now I live for my bike commute; it's the highlight of my day.
I arrived at the same time as a cycling coworker this morning. After parking our bikes and chatting about the nice cool weather, he said, "have a nice day." I should have said, "I already did!"
Categories: bicycles, work
2 comments:
Wow, that's really a good post. It's interesting and hard to put into words what it feels like to ride everywhere on a bike. No longer being isolated from the outside world, from the elements, people and animals, the outside world becomes more clear. Our isolation in cubicles, offices, classrooms, seems less real because it's artificial, built up to protect us from living.
John
I agree with John, great post. I love Fight Club.
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