Whilst I’ve changed my opinion on pirates, tomatoes and the
meaning of life; I’ve always been a firm believer in the fact that all things
are possible [except roller skating backwards through a revolving door while
juggling knives and killer clawed kittens].
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| Everyone said it was impossible to drive from London to Mongolia in a tin-canish car.... But... |
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| I never dreamed it possible to lug a ginormous teddy about for more than a year and I thought my ability to cycle across countries even less likely... but... |
As a kid I believed that humans could fly. I started a
flying academy and whilst all the teachers thought it was cute that a bunch of
people would chase me around the field flapping their arms; the hardest part of
the academy was finding things high enough to jump off, devising flying contraptions
(plastic bag parachutes, umbrellas, cardboard wings, etc), and [the hardest
part:] coming up with feasible cover stories for parents and teachers when height
+ failed contraption = unfortunate incident/sprainage/breakature. I still
believe humans can fly…
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| and no, sky diving doesn't count... |
Similarly I still believe that sailing a self-built raft
across oceans is still possible (even if the first attempt was very unsuccessful).
I still believe that I will lick a president some day (I’ve lost track of my
failure tallies on this one). I still believe that someday I will have an
empire… I still believe that I can successfully complete even the most unlikely
challenges on my bucket list….
….But I had a grave revelation this week…. it only took 28
years to discover it….
I moved to Cape Town last Saturday to start a new job 8-30am
on Sunday. Lack of transport options led
me to rekindle my hatred of the bicycle; cycling 20km in each direction between
a house on a hill and a job on a far massiver hill. Fortunately my job involves
swinging in the trees and making and keeping people happy (and a bunch of more
boring admin/ managerial jumbo) – but it’s a taxing vocation that, combined
with the lack of cycling fitness [or any fitness for that matter] in my life,
and the need for a social life, and ever-present insomniacishness; has made
this the most taxing week of my life!
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| The typical first day of work bruise |
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| It's a lot less purple now, but it now bends in two very different directions |
As I cycled home on Saturday night after 6 days straight of
9 hour shifts with a broken toe, the wind blew me off my bicycle and onto the pavement shortly before
a bird decided to expel its lunch on me on me and I burst into tears when it suddenly hit me…
…and I really don’t like this realization at all, or the
ramifications of it…
….and I don’t know how this will affect the ’all things are
possible’ philosophy…
….and I hope I’m not the only one that this applies to…
…but…
I’m only human. I have limitations.
