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Passion is a true corruption of sanity.

Without sanity I cannot live. No one can. And yet without Passion, life is as meaningless as it is without whims and fancies. How can then one even contemplate the irony of life where in sanctity and chaos are brethren, bound together for eternity, as lights and shadows are?
Desires are a part of the human experience that makes us do that which we are not usually happy with or particularly care about. The only consolation drawn from this is that what we get is greater than the path tread to obtain it. Indeed, it would seem that the Journey does not count.
And yet, as a Tourer knows, it does.

Touring has been a part of my life that has existed before my awakened conscience was graced with the abundance of the beauty that this land or any other might offer. It is in my blood and so I am blissfully cursed never to be glad of the stativity of existing in one place without dynamism. Still, all that counts for nothing, as at the end of the day, I cannot live up to the desire.

However, as every living soul wise enough to question the passing of even a small event will know, while desires are the folly in us, they are not necessarily the evil of Human spirit. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, it is said, but what is mostly forgotten is that an equal amount is needed to trigger that action in the first place. As one those who may not understand the core simplicity of this, I cannot help but feel saddened. Every desire comes at a price, the price which in an ideal world is an equivalent trade for the fulfillment of the said desire. An Ideal world. We know that such a concept cannot exist. Ironically, we are easily presented with a choice of the path we take in life. Most of the times, this has a dire impact on those who Desires demand a path that will burden them with the previously presented dilemma. Following the path on which we are glad, heartened, many times leads to a point where we are forced to let go of the Desires and formulate ones to replace them. Only time will tell if all this was worth it: Did the Journey overbear the dream of the Destination? Fortunate are those whose Journey leads them to the exact Place they wanted to be.

The folly of Desires is not in that they are bad, no. In fact, as stated, they are the dreams that can really give us a good sleep in the chaotic overflow of life that forces us to abandon the innocence of a small child and grow up in a dominating world order. The undoing of Desires is that many times, they make us act in a manner which, in Life’s passing, will gruesomely overshadow the benefits that were reaped. That is what so many fail to understand. The most interesting part in all this is that it is not a phenomenon that randomly occurs without our say in it. Life does not play the game that way. We are given lessons on this in ways that would seem unrelated and incomprehensible and yet, nothing could be truer. The lesson is so simple that at times, it is easily missed: Follow your desire, but not at expense of life.
There are so many examples of this is the daily life that it hard not to be awed by the unintended simplicity of life. Be it that the desire of promoting a pawn to a queen left the King undefended to buying a house that ate up entire savings or whatever suits your fancy, the examples are there. The only grieving part is that we will never know whether we learn from one, or never. Only when we have played our cards, will life’s hand be revealed.
One of the easiest lessons for a biker is the concept of Speed Thrills, but Kills. Regardless of how you look at it, the thrill is the factor that really entices. What happens during the journey is not really taken into account till the journey ends, one way or the other.

All this, I say, is because I want a bike. To recreate a part of me that faded away with the demise of my old one. I too understand that I am in a place where tens and thousands are. The contemplation of buying something that the heart desires, that at times, nothing else seems to matter. I too have so close to blundering to just get that bike that I am thankful to have recovered. Will this last, till I get a way that is truly worth it or will I fall?

Only time will tell.

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