Mark Zuckerburgs post on Facebook inspired me on the eve of New Year to learn something new this year. So i decided to challenge myself and learn cycling. Yes i am 33 years old now and still scared to ride a cycle as i missed this opportunity in my childhood. Whatever be it, i went ahead and bought a bike and started practicing at late night. Within a week, i was comfortable to ride on the empty lanes of azad nagar.
I started pursuing this passion over long routes and I never knew cycling would get me addicted, as every sunday night i started taking on longer circuits. In yesterday (10th April 2016), few things i learnt in the circuit that i followed.
1. You will get to know your Destination, only when you get out of the house.
Just wear your shoes and leave, sometimes too much planning will keep you seated. Best part of cycling is you don't need to plan where to go, you just leave and the route picks you up.
2. Guidance arrives automatically when on a rough patch
I had taken Aarey Colony route, which does not have any street lights and my bike is beginners bike and not equipped with any lights. It was completely dark and i was biking in middle of jungle, My only source of guidance were the luminsance emitted from the vehicles speeding by me.
3. Keep Faith, Don't Get Scared and Follow your path
Continuing through the earlier point, there were times, when there were no vehicles passing by and it was pitch dark. I was getting scared at times of falling down or something hitting me in middle of the Aarey Jungle, but my inner conscious asked me to focus and my faith in myself gave a hope on yes i will make it.
4. Keep up the momentum and keep reminding yourself to sustain at every interval
I consider myself still a beginner and face a lot of challenge when it comes to climbing an inclination. Only if i loose my momentum when climbing up hill, i am sure i will drop out and hence it became very much essential to sustain my impulse and kept reminding myself just 10 more meters of uphill even though i knew it was more than 100 meters, but if i had not done that i was sure of failing and not able to pick up from that point
5. Success always comes Home
Finally, tired and wet with sweat , i was just about 1 km away and slipped due to a turn by a rickshaw. But luckily i was not injured. I was safe and was success to complete my route safely and extremely happy to reach home, take shower and have dinner. Point is you will only enjoy your success when you have someone to share it with it. Otherwise it is just a memory which you cannot reminiscence unless people and places around you stay in future for your grey matter to reminiscence.
