Here are some statistics that don’t lie. A measley 1.3% of trips in the U.S.A. are taken by bicycle. Compare and contrast with Holland where it’s 25%; Germany 14%; Canada is over 2%. In America we don’t find the time to ride or even walk on like so many of our NA and European neighbors. We sit…
My friend, George, had a massive heart attack before he turned 40 – bad genes were part of his inheritance. They cut his sternum when they fixed his heart. Chronic arthritic pain right down his middle is his new normal. Hurts like hell, he tells me. Doc gave him two choices to alieviate his pain. Heroin (legally, of course, via pain killers) was numero uno. Number two was a bit strange. His second option was to STOP thinking about it.
Come on, doc!!
After laughing at the preposterous choices, George took a walk to think it over, he told me. A few hundred yards in, his chest pain dropped him to his knees. Buckeled like a cheap suit. Crounching on all fours in agony, he noticed out of the corner of his eye a baby bunny chewing on some grass a few feet away. George looked at his newfound friend and began to talk. He told the bunny how much his chest hurt. The bunnies whiskers twitched, eyes met, and little bunny kept on chewing. He talked to the little bunny and the little bunny listened and hopped a little closer. After a few minutes of one way convo, George told the bunny he wouldn’t hurt him but he was going to get up. He hoped the bunny wouldn’t hop away. Bunny just kept chewing. George got up and continued to walk down his path while saying his goodbye’s to bunny. He smiled and simply walked on. About a mile down the trail, George buckled again. This time with laughter…
He’s been walking on, ever since. Funny what happened when he simply chose to think about something else. That bunny moment was over 40 years ago. George, you see, is an active, healthy, 80. FM, baby…
By George, I think he’s got it. You?
Live hard. Love ❤️ harder…
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