It’s the most liberating thing in the world. ... When retreat is no longer an option ….. it’s only up and [it’s] an amazing sense of freedom because there is no longer a choice. Mark Twight.
Bicycles are fantastic. Single track flowy mountain bike trails are awesome, but so is riding your bike along the shared path beside the ocean to the local park run.
Our first home renovation project, a pretty simple one – tiling a splash back – I realised how over-rated choice was. Even in the small town we lived in there were a thousand different tile options, and you had to look at them all and work out which was the right colour, shape, cost, how easy the installation would be, on and on and on, looking at f**king tiles until gouging your own eyes out would be preferable.
Grocery stores are the same, 47 different cereal boxes (all junk), 23 different types of jam (also junk), 40 different packages of frozen fish (coated in glyphosate soaked junk). How much time and energy is wasted comparing the different packets of junk?
Saturday, if I’m home, is Park Run day so I don’t have to make any choices. I get up, charge up on coffee, ride my bicycle down to Rotary Park and participate. There is so much power in limiting your choices, so much space made in your brain and your life. No-one really needs 37 different options that is really only one option packaged up in a different brightly coloured mess of plastic and paper. Limit your options, expand your life.
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