Picture this…
There’s this juggler. He’s up there doing his best trick,
juggling chainsaws, swords, and live rattlesnakes, while riding a unicycle, on
a tightrope, with the rope on fire, in a high wind, and dodging thrown rocks
and bottles. No net. No safety harness.
Does anyone else get the feeling, that
this could be a fair simile for life in the 21st century?
We who ride bicycles a lot, are
all proud of our balance. But let’s
be honest. The bike does most of
the work of keeping us upright. As
long as we keep it going it keeps us
up. Cars are inherently stable. One has to work, do something violent and
drastic to get them to fall over.
Our bikes are dynamically stable. They have to be moving to self-stabalize. If they stand still, they tip.
That’s not a bad metaphor for life. We keep moving, with purpose, or we fall.
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