Comments on: Balancing Riding and Life https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/09/balancing-riding-and-life/ Exploring life on a Vespa Scooter and Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle. Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:52:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: irondad https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/09/balancing-riding-and-life/#comment-367 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:30:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=690#comment-367 wow, hannah! You know how to give the father figure “what for”, don’t you? I’ve enjoyed reading your comments. You have the makings of a philosopher, yourself. I especially find it interesting that in the beginning you were very worried about Steve riding. Now you’re urging him to make time? Has your concern that he find his soul on the scooter outweighed your loving worry about him? You might be a born rider and not realize it yet!!

Dan

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/09/balancing-riding-and-life/#comment-366 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:03:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=690#comment-366 irondad: No sleeping on the way to work. I love the ride too much–wide, wide awake for that. I need to get up a bit earlier to have time for a more rambling ride to work.

Hannah: I understand the part about not waiting for inspiration. Easy to know, hard to live though. I’ve never been real good at forcing myself to do things.

I might start posting daily. One a day posts with a photo. Even if it just says “all work and no play makes Steve a dull boy…”

That’s it—I start today. I am going to post something even if it is noise….

steve

]]> By: hrw115 https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/09/balancing-riding-and-life/#comment-365 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:06:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=690#comment-365 mule fritters. When did you become such a complacent blog writer?

An entire MFA degree and certainly 30 some years of working a full-time job should have taught you that you can’t just wait for a moment of inspiration to act on anything.

You have to create art when you don’t want to. You have to go to work and be productive when you don’t want to. You have to force yourself to make time for yourself to ride your vespa – even when you don’t want to. Before you know it, you will get a sense of the feeling that you have when you ride and you will crave it. It will begin to feel less like a job.

It is like that for me when I ride my bike (bicycle). Sometimes I just don’t want to do it and I force myself out of bed at 6 am to wake up and eat before I go – but once I get on the bike and get my brain to quit complaining – everything else follows suit and I relax. I actually enjoy myself!

You haven’t lost the knack – you have just let everything else become more important – and you definitely need to do something about it because reading the same story for a week straight sucks. 😛

Maybe you should allow guest bloggers to mix up the content a bit and give you some greater creative inspiration.

]]> By: irondad https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/09/balancing-riding-and-life/#comment-364 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:07:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=690#comment-364 Post when you should be sleeping. Get a really comfortable seat for the bike. Sleep on the way to work! Oh wait, that’s what “cagers” already do, isn’t it?

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