Daily Cascade

Life Is Like Riding a Bike

Prompt:
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." -- Albert Einstein.
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This made me grin, since in my case my bicycle can end up in a whirlwind. But, yes, I have to keep on moving, and that's exactly what I am doing now, while staying in one place at the same time. I guess I can say I am moving in place. This is because, sometimes, there's stability in motion.

Imagine a child riding a bicycle. The first time she is on a bike, the world feels unsteady. Her legs pump furiously, wheels screech, and everything around her wobbles as she fights the gravity. But once she finds that rhythm, when the pedals sync with her heartbeat, she realizes that stillness can mean a bad fall.

Not that I've fallen from a bike, at all. I couldn't have because I only knew how to ride a trike. Only because my mother forbid it, saying where we lived there was no place to ride a bike safely, despite the pleas of my uncle who wanted to show me how. Maybe she was afraid I'd take off on a bike and ride to the moon where she wouldn't be able to reach me.

Riding back to the quote, Einstein's words are not about overprotective mothers and bikes, but it is probably his manifesto for living, for adapting one's motions between the steep hills and smooth roads. In other words, life demands careful navigation whether one owns a compass or not.

I can't ride a bike, but I learned, like a cyclist would, to lower my head, bend, and keep on pedaling. The balance isn’t about rigid control but resilience. Motion means hope, and stillness isn't always still if it has something to do with reflection, such as a writer stopping to think how to put together her story elements.

Nothing really needs over-acceleration, especially if the ground is rocky. But we have to keep on moving no matter what. I know I have to. After all, it is okay to fall, from time to time. This is because falling is not failing but feedback.

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