Good Karma Wanted…Apply Within
As cyclists, we’ve had almost as tough a run lately as your neighborhood mortgage banker or your favorite post-teen Hollywood starlette. Seems we just can get no respect.
More troubling, is that we often don’t exactly give it, either. A short and vastly incomplete list of Some Things We Don’t Like would include –
- Drivers who pass too closely or yell or throw stuff at us (and we’ve got some grounds for being disgruntled here)
- Cyclists who give the sport a bad name, for example by riding in flagrant violation to local ordinances
- Cities that won’t put in bike lanes, and others of us actually don’t like bike lanes
- When our communities widen and repave roads without providing a safe place for us upon them
- Our city and its drivers, which we tend to think are above-average in disliking us
- Cyclists who dope
- News people who think only cyclists dope — we think other sports deserve a turn “at bat” (hint, hint) airing who else uses EPO and testosterone
- What’s happening to Floyd, but we’re willing to continue stirring on this conversation topic seemingly FOR-FREAKING-EVER
- WADA or Dick Pound. We don’t like the UCI, either
- Bad service at the LBS; we all could dredge up a shortcoming or two about this, couldn’t we?
We’ve all got stories of bad things that happened to us while out riding, and we tell them to “outsiders.” This, folks, this is called Bad Karma. Bad Karma is negativity you throw out, that comes back to you.
If we’re to really enjoy the utopian experience of cycling, which we’ve all managed to find at times and is why we keep heading out on our two-wheeled ponies, then we need to ditch the Bad Karma and refocus on the good. This is about banishing the negativity and allowing only the positive to flow in and out. This is bigger than any of us. This is about NOTHING LESS THAN UNIVERSAL HAPPINESS, and it starts with us – because we touch the true source, we like to think, of nirvana.
So I’m sending out this invitation for responses, asking you to post some Good Karma for all of us to enjoy. It can be about anything you feel demonstrates Good Karma, such as –
- A really good experience you had with your LBS, or one you stumbled upon
- Someone you met while riding who made a lasting positive impression on your life
- A great group you ride with
- Someone who went out of their way to make your ride better or safer
- A great event you raced in
- Someone who taught you something valuable about cycling, or, through cycling, about life
- Any other great experience you had because you get on a bike and ride
He or she who posts the best story, gets our undying appreciation (and I’ll talk to the Editor about maybe some swag, but don’t hold me to it). He or she who makes us laugh or cry in happiness gets some immediate gifts of positive Karma, and a clearer (but not sooner, promise) path to heaven.
The gun has fired, and I hand you the pen…
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