Thread: [Hard Torque]: Mid-Life Crisis@21?
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Old 08-16-2009, 01:26 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Sunny View Post
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Anything in the world if overdone will risk it being tagged as monotonous. Once your brain experiences a certain thing it is 'wired' and the next time you do it would be a little more like a natural reflex. Something like when you are going back from your office to home on a bike you dont even think of the route, your body is directing the motorcycle based on instructions from the brain transmitted over a subconscious cerebral layer.

I know businessmen who once dreamed of making it big and owning big cars, but now even they are finding this 'boring'.

To keep oneself driven, you must keep trying new things. If you dont use your bike to tour anywhere then you will not realize how many places it can take you. Buy yourself some new gear, do a new paintjob, make things interesting. Its human nature and an indication to move to a higher level and try something new.
Thank you Sunny, for the paragraphing, i used to dabble here and there in a few essays but looks like i'm a bit rusty

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Originally Posted by L.P. View Post
Sometimes at a point of time,Life seems to have become'd stable and following the same kind of pattern on a daily Basis,it becomes very monotonous.

Introducing small changes frequently would keep a person indulged in the new activities and keep his mind rolling down the line and learning new things over the period of time along with the slow curve!

The life at 21 is the learning phase,what you will learn now is what you will be may be 5 years and 10year's down the line!

Truly Commendable words EL-LOCO-Diablo,very well written my friend!
Thank you L.P., i was merely stating my feelings as they emerged whilst writing this

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Originally Posted by onlinesatish View Post
Well...i do get bored at times riding my bike again and again. So i keep changing my rides often and change my ridng habit every now and then too. And once you get back to your old self you enjoy every moment of it.

This is what i do and it still keeps me close to my RTR. It still puts a smile on my face whenever i rip it. But rip rip rip will get boring at times. Try riding like how a commuter would ride....then get back to your usual riding say after 10days and rediscover yourself
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Originally Posted by rennycornelius View Post
There are times when i find myself looking at the red light to turn green...
My tacho glued to 5000 when thr are 10 sec left..
thn i let go the clutch pull a wheelie off the line and i win the traffic light GP.

This gives me a sense of satisfaction when i beat an 18 year old kid in his zma or 180 with my Fi cuz that poor chap don’t know whn to shift gears and how to drive it correctly....

thr are times when they pull close to me show me a hand to race with them, sometimes i show them my speedo drop a gear and then i show them what "revving the hell outta bike" means...

but thr are times i let the kid win cuz this seems all a very kiddish stuff to me...

We all get bored with the same things in life..
but when i get bored with the traffic light GP,i got to twisties put my leg down at every curve and talk to my bike,that yes!!! you can pull it babe!!!,c'mon you should have showed more power at 7500 then you're showin to me right now!!!!

and when i get bored from this too,i go to the open road park my bike in front and think that life is not about biking sometimes.....

It's not about fiddling with the carb,it's not about getting new broad soft compound tyre,it's not about shifting each gear at the red line,it's not about scrapin the pegs,it's not about getting ur hands dirty while cleaning out the air filter,it's not about checkin the plugs colour.....

it's about several other things too,tht happens when we are 21 or 23 or more than that....

when we have to put our biking passion in side for many other practical things in life.....

i cannot go and spend 10000 bucks on the new end can because i'll be needing those bucks for some other work too....

thr are many amongst us who cannot go and buy a superbike worth 8lakhs,inspite of having the bucks cuz they have to buy the first car of the family too....

I really begged my father to buy me 2007 R6 when it came out...but he bought me Ford Fiesta 1.4 ZXI sayin-"it makes more sense"...

2 years down the line now,i believe it does......

i miss my being 18 when i used to ask things from my dad and i used to spend anything on my bike without thinkin twice that i may be in need of it later cuz I always had dad’s hand reaching for me before me putting my hands in my pocket for bucks…

but things are changed now....
now it's my pocket that i've to fill,

but still if i'm 100% tensed of something,my bike shaves off 80% for me when i go out with her....

if it's not with bike then listening to ur fav tracks you can try out a car with ur love by ur side on a long ride gives you many more things other than biking in real world....

but at the end of the day,i feel blessed for having many things in life to choose from to get that smile on my face when i get bored.
If Invention was the mother of necessity, then Reinvention is the mother of creativity, change is ultimately the only thing that can save our souls from it's dreary fate which in my opinion is far worse than anything else.Thanks guys, eventhough the explanantion is obvious and i too have thought on the same lines, when it comes out from various people from around the country, the whole sentence changes and gets a fresh new meaning. It's like when you keep looking at something long enough you can the see that thing will change your perception of it over and over again surprising you every time. So looks like i might to look hard in my bike to find it's lost soul and also mine
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