Routine or adventure?
We reconstruct our lives bit by bit, day by day, year by year. Out lives take on a routine and then we bemoan that routine. Predictability, is a double edged blade of comfort and boredom. We long for it, we build it, and when we find it – we reject it.
Change is not always growth, but growth is always rooted in change. A finished person, like a finished house, is a static thing. Pleasant perhaps, or beautiful or admirable, but not for the long existing.
We all remember the television shows of our youth. The father in a sitcom departs for work, arrives home to his affable spouse. The ensuing dialogue has the same intent so often that his wife usually finished his sentences for him. We recall the shows where the main character was a rebel, lived by his own rules; a doctrine of egocentric. The rebel would ride into the sunset with a different girl on the back of his motorcycle, ‘living the dream’. Commonly our ‘dreams’ fell somewhere in the middle of these two extremes, yet some of us are now living the stereotypes we most feared.
I am young, yet to reach the epitome, the pinnacle, the realization or every dream a cyclist could fashion. As the winter months fall upon one another all I desire is change for all that is well in the pursuit of cycling excellence, yet I refuse to phase it that way. Admittedly my ‘inner doctrine’ seeks only adventure. Reaching a post, a post occupied for nearly 3 months (my stay in Belleville, ON), I seek to abandon that stagnant post at every turn because inside I must seek more opportunity to grow.
Not all people are possessed of such spirits. Some desire and cling to the comfort and routine, to the surety that comes with the completion of construction of the construction of a life’s details. On the smaller scale they become wedded to their daily routines. They are enamored of the predictability. They calm their restless souls in the confidence that they have found their place in the multi-verse, that things are the way they are supposed to be, that there are no roads left to explore and no reason to wander. At least not worth exploring and jeopardizing this ‘harmony’.
This is the line we all straddle, between comfort and adventure. Kudos to those who have this continual desire to improve themselves and the world around them. Walk upon the road unseen with curves, twists and ‘cul de sacs’ yet always enjoying the challenge. -OC
man that was really good read, could you post more about this please?
man that was really good read, could you post more about this please?