An explanation of why I think like I do

(Typed yesterday, Thames-side, Bank Holiday May 31st)

The suns out! I’ve been to the riverside and now in my local park/recreation ground.

It’s bank holiday and I have been wearing a smile ever-since leaving my house. I am wary though. Wary of the undefeated enemy of the world, Coronavirus.

My immediate joy of immediate surroundings always makes me feel cautious.

I remember my complete confusion whilst cycling. I loved the activity sooo much, too much, yet I was puzzled - i was only noticing positive effects of everything that it gave me.

• sporting ability
• Fitness
• Design work (both 2D and 3D education)
• Friends
• Employment (From ages of 16-20, I worked part-time for one of the UK’s leading retailers)
• Holidays abroad, and British locations
• Loving fan of the professional sport
• ... (the list goes on endlessly)

As I awoke in hospital, I knew that things had ‘levelled out’, I was told that I may never walk again!

Drastic, horrific,...

But, atleast I had my question answered. Things DO BALANCE (total sum of positives = total sum of negatives).

I was incredibly lucky to survive and be able to share this knowledge.

There are equalling positive aspects, and negative aspects of EVERYTHING.

(I finish by typing today in the local park's sunshine)

:) !!

My pedal-power is still trained, daily, on my ‘Moto-Med Wheelchair-adapted Gym bike’. I may feel similar to a ‘rat-in-a-cage’, at points, but I still do it because it keeps me aerobically fit, but because primarily...

I LOVE PUSHING PEDALS

I set myself goals, targets, reach them then push them further away. I repeat, and repeat, and repeat.

I admit that I rarely used to cycle to commute, or to get from A to B. Most commonly, I would do laps of Richmond Park, ending where I had started! Why, because I loved the process!

It would take 20minutes per lap of Richmond Park, so I knew that I would do 20minute sessions on my ‘new bike’. I started using one in my Rehabilitation Home, and so bought my own soon after moving to my own Flat ( I felt it ‘essential’)! It is only in the past month that I have altered this duration to an hour. I would previously increase the resistance, but I have decided to limit this after serious injuries a couple of years ago.

Please remember this, if your are ever feeling a tilt towards an ‘extreme’ (either positive or negative), don’t get lost, remember an equal, opposite will exist, somewhere, somehow, sometime!