Is Life Just another Exercise Bike?
Here in one place well you’’re just setting
You may be grinning spinning and sweating
Those knees keep pumping
So the numbers start jumping
Exercise bike so it’s nowhere you’re getting
The statistics on what Americans spend on “health and fitness” each year are impressive if not staggering. We pay out over $1,800 a year so over the course of a fairly active 40 years let’s say,,, that’s 70 grand easy. This household just put down 80 dollars for what was once a $600 exercise bike and it has lots of miles left in it. Oh and it is one of those pieces of equipment that you can program to act like you are on a certain path or kind of trail so it simulates hills etc.
Well that led to some interesting thoughts. Is life like an exercise bike. Do we sit there staring. At a screen wondering why we aren’t going anywhere and even when we see numbers on a screen telling us we have. Made progress does it really feel like we’ve moved from one spot in life to another?
It does seem certain that we have put forth an effort and it. Takes a lot of determination and like most bike seats the world can be a pain in the backside. Oh and there is sweat… we sweat the big stuff. We sweat the sort of important stuff and many times we sweat the small stuff too.
It may seem like. We aren’t going anywhere because no matter the effort we make there’s a good chance we might end up in the same place we started. On the other hand if we use some of the riding time to think about good friends, good memories, and ways to help each other when the next chance happens well then maybe we aren’t just going no place now are we? Maybe we are clearing our minds and helping our body get better now and ready for choices that are likely to come when tomorrow becomes today?
So maybe.. when we ride the bike. Of life it allows us to reflect and solidify the meaning of things which means turning mistakes into lessons etc. So in the endow may be the only person who can tell if you are just sitting and spinning or actually going somewhere.
