Slap Inward The Face, Pat On The Back
January 27, 2016
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"The value of life tin terminate survive measured past times how many times your soul has been deeply stirred." -Soichiro Honda
I know, I know, 2 Honda quotes inwards a week, my apologies. This 1 truly got me thinking. I began to recount the moments inwards my life where this has occurred. Then I stopped as well as wondered what truly qualified every bit a "soul stirring" moment, overthought the whole affair into a bunch of requirements as well as qualifications as well as promptly ended upward inwards some philosophical morass the likes of which an intellectual 4x4 amongst a winch could non describe me out of.
Finally, similar a drunkard emerging from his heady stupor, I had a 2nd of clarity. If you lot accept to question, thus it but wasn't. This made Definition easier, but too dramatically cutting downwards on the let out of occurrences, which is sobering inwards as well as of itself.
As you lot may accept guessed, some of my moments involve motorcycling 1 means or another, the residual are none of your goddamn business, at to the lowest degree non until somebody or thus hither buys me a squeamish dinner.
Moving downwards my listing that seemed to survive growing shorter past times the minute, I defined 2 dissimilar types of these events, the showtime of which I called 'The Slap inwards the Face', the second, 'The Pat on the Back'.
The Slap inwards the Face, past times virtue of lift alone, is the to a greater extent than jarring of the two, but maybe to a greater extent than meaningful. It is the sort of sense that tin terminate Pb to a existent personal shift, a stirring inwards the contrary direction that turns our notions on their ears. As nosotros age, nosotros decease to a greater extent than armored against these, I think, at to the lowest degree until the slap gets powerful plenty to knock us on our asses. Then nosotros ignore them at our peril.
The Pat on the Back is precisely that, only deeper. An affirmation of the things nosotros already knew but needed to survive reminded of, an ember re-kindled. They serve, maybe, to allow us know that nosotros haven't gotten absolutely everything wrong.
Whichever of these nosotros experience, they are 1 of the few things that telephone telephone to us to create to a greater extent than than exist. Vegetables exist, rocks exist, dirt exists, we, on the other hand, tin terminate survive moved. And that is something, thus I volition continue looking for it amongst 2 wheels, 2 feet as well as 2 eyes.
One cannot promise to survive moved that stands yet all the time.
