nodejesque
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This is exactly what I'm afraid of, lol. Someone suggested adult cycling classes, but I have tried, and its not as easy as it looks. Much like in the clip, except I do far worse.
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This is exactly what I'm afraid of, lol. Someone suggested adult cycling classes, but I have tried, and its not as easy as it looks. Much like in the clip, except I do far worse.
Graeme1988
Hie yer hence from me heath!
Sorry that ah ended up bein' such a disappointment to you. :sad:
MollyBeGood
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I watched a live feed last night in bed of a Japanese ceremony re-enacted from the Edo period that was AMAZING.
They wore traditional clothing, make-up and played music..it was a poetry competition of sorts by a river that involved floating cups of sake down the water and who wrote the best poem was judged.
I love Japanese culture like that. It makes the world seem so full and beautiful to me.
They wore traditional clothing, make-up and played music..it was a poetry competition of sorts by a river that involved floating cups of sake down the water and who wrote the best poem was judged.
I love Japanese culture like that. It makes the world seem so full and beautiful to me.
planemo
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I only learnt when I was 18, but I was determined to get it right, which I eventually did. I haven't had much of an opportunity to ride since, but they do say that once you learn you never forget. Let's hope that's true.
Graeme1988
Hie yer hence from me heath!
S_Spartan
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Opaline
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defiance
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I'm so sorry for being such a mess up. If I could give up my life to have a better son take my place I would. But unfortunately I can't. I wish I had died in 1986 when I was sick. That way you could have had another child aside from my brother while you were still young. I'm sorry Mom.
SilentAndShy
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Man, these last few days I've thought about what if I ended it.. (thought about, not about actually doing it)
Just feel so alone. No relief or comfort in a work or home environtment. My wife and the pressure of marriage not helping and the family environment and culture just find it so difficult to do things..
Wish I was on my own in my own place able to live my life without thinking about the thoughts of others...
Just feel so alone. No relief or comfort in a work or home environtment. My wife and the pressure of marriage not helping and the family environment and culture just find it so difficult to do things..
Wish I was on my own in my own place able to live my life without thinking about the thoughts of others...
nodejesque
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“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
Robert Frost
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
Robert Frost
SilentAndShy
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Really feel bereft of any emotions - wife wanted to go out today, how do I explain that for at least five years, the thing I haven't done much of, or have an interest in, is going out. I just don't want to. I want to be alone. I'm questioning everything in life - marriage, work, religion. Just feel empty and no emotion.
PugofCrydee
You want to know how I got these scars?
I love Japanese culture too. I plan to travel there, possibly my next holiday.
Just having trouble deciding between 2-3 places..:thinking:
Opaline
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Want:
Wide open grassy spaces and trees, fresh healthy food, people I connect with and a sense of community, and time to enjoy these things
Have:
Dense concrete pollution-filled urban spaces, processed and GMO and pesticide-laden food, miserable sour and rude/stressed faces or people I feel alienated from, and work and class work and class work and class...
It's not all bad. I have a nice little place to live and so forth. I just long for certain things.
Wide open grassy spaces and trees, fresh healthy food, people I connect with and a sense of community, and time to enjoy these things
Have:
Dense concrete pollution-filled urban spaces, processed and GMO and pesticide-laden food, miserable sour and rude/stressed faces or people I feel alienated from, and work and class work and class work and class...
It's not all bad. I have a nice little place to live and so forth. I just long for certain things.
nodejesque
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Was it difficult to learn? I have tried multiple times, but I just cant do it. I get on and wobble on the bike... Trying to get it going, then I fall.
The thing is, in the past year I have won two bikes in two different raffles. We have beautiful bike trails that I would love to ride through... But I can't.
Its really embarrassing.
Megaten
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Dang I can see how that would be difficult later on. When I learned as a kid I had to take one of the training wheels off, the try to balance while that other training wheel was my safety net. Seemed like it took a while before I got the balance right. Also the slower you go, the harder it is to balance. Don't ask me why.
planemo
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I was exactly the same, and yes it was difficult. Maybe just like Frasier my brother turned out to get it right first, so I kept on trying, when I would ordinarily have given up.
As Megaten suggested you could try training wheels. I don't know if that's possible with the bikes you won. I do think however that if I showed less concern when learning I would have mastered it earlier. I know people with anxiety find that hard, but just try to convince yourself it's no big deal whether I get it right now, or whether I get it right in a year from now. I think that's probably what did help, realising that as long as I kept at it, it was impossible for me not to get it right, and that proved to be correct.
Also, don't be embarrassed. If you were a kid, you wouldn't be embarrassed. You wouldn't expect a kid to get it right without any difficulty. So you're the same, only you're learning to ride at a different stage in your life. That's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's not that you're incapable of riding a bike, you just didn't learn at the same time everyone else did.
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AtTheGates
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a lot of things seem like they're not even worth doing if you don't have someone to do them with...alot of stuff just seems unappealing when you're by yourself.