Comments on: Resolving for the New Year… https://scooterinthesticks.com/2008/01/resolving-for-new-year/ Exploring life on a Vespa, Royal Enfield Himalayan, Honda Trail 125, and a Kawasaki W650 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:48:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: SimplyTim https://scooterinthesticks.com/2008/01/resolving-for-new-year/#comment-1923 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:22:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=526#comment-1923 Hey Steve,

Happy New Year!

I’m glad my mantra velcroed to your mind and am curious to see how it all develops in your life.

It has made an enormous impact in mine. I do go slower, but it’s not the key factor. The key is to take rushing off the table and then let the speed and the gears just find themselves naturally.

A suggestion: shift from “quit rushing” to “I will rush no more.

It’s probably splitting hairs – but it seems very real to me.

“Quit rushing” implies that you are putting on the brakes and that requires effort and for some highly action oriented people goes against the grain.

But when you say “I will rush no more” it is a positive statement which the mind can relate to easily. It’s not a command. It offers an implied picture to the mind which invites a sense of freedom. It would be awkward but maybe it could be “I will rush-no-more.” Yea, I am splitting hairs now.

I find it interesting that almost everyone likes the mantra, and equally almost everyone morphs it to “don’t rush” or some such variation. For me, at least, those variants don’t work as well.

ride safely.

Tim

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2008/01/resolving-for-new-year/#comment-1917 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:09:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=526#comment-1917 heinz & frenchie: Thank you! I hope to see the days pass slowly this year.

Ride safely in Florida!

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2008/01/resolving-for-new-year/#comment-1916 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:08:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=526#comment-1916 chaty: Thank you for your kind and insightful comments. The choices for riding are so expansive that it is hard to figure out. With all things I own I try and choose things that I make a connection with at a level deeper than pure utility. If I don’t I tend not to use them. The Vespa was one of those choices that just clicked.

Not sure if pictures of my truck will ever appear here or not. Actually I am hoping to get rid of the thing and replace it with something smaller, cheaper, and better on gas.

Take your time with your choices. One day you’ll just know what you need to do.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2008/01/resolving-for-new-year/#comment-1915 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=526#comment-1915 crusty: I like the image of the out of control carousel. That is what it can feel like.

I never thought of myself as a dinosaur but more and more I am beginning to see that I am out of step with a lot of things in society. Enjoying, expecting, and requiring solitude is certainly not a mainstream desire. More and more people seem to avoid it at all costs and ask “where’s the fun in that?”

Have a fine and safe new year.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2008/01/resolving-for-new-year/#comment-1914 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:56:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=526#comment-1914 pitchertaker: Exactly right! Unless you try that stuff you never really engage with things.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2008/01/resolving-for-new-year/#comment-1913 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:55:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=526#comment-1913 sarch: I plan to keep going. Maybe change the length or type of posts now and then but still here.

Have a great New Year!

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2008/01/resolving-for-new-year/#comment-1912 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:54:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=526#comment-1912 david: I promise, next tire change I will try the Kendas. I am just sort of slow to change…

I’ve seen pictures of chains on the vintage Vespas but not anything for the Modern ones.

Isn’t it amazing the things you will try on two wheels when you are a kid?

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2008/01/resolving-for-new-year/#comment-1911 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:52:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=526#comment-1911 rick, maggie, and micah: Thank you for your kind wishes and I hope the new year is finding you well and happy.

Ride safely!

]]> By: Heinz & Frenchie https://scooterinthesticks.com/2008/01/resolving-for-new-year/#comment-1898 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:44:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=526#comment-1898 Happy New Year Steve and wishing you more hours in a day, more days in a week, more weeks in a month and more months in a year. May you stretch your time in 2008 and reap every second.

]]> By: Chaty https://scooterinthesticks.com/2008/01/resolving-for-new-year/#comment-1896 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:07:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=526#comment-1896 Well, Steve, Happy New Year. I’ve enjoyed your blog very much over the last few months. I’ve read all of it, which was very nice. I was looking for help to make some decisions. What to ride? What to do? Your blog has been very helpful. There are some truly excellent pictures, but you’ve heard plenty of that. But I’m talking about something much deeper. Any picture on your pick-up truck would’ve been just as great! I mean that. That’s how good the pictures are. But it’s about much more than that. I still don’t know – after these few months – what I want. Motorcycle? Scooter? Nothing at all? That might say a lot or nothing at all. A great blog. Little else out there because I know it has little to do with two wheels or four or bicycles or what not. I suppose the only way would be to ride and to say nothing about it. Nothing. Thank you.

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