Conquered the Summit. (It wasn’t exactly Everest)
Haven’t done an actual race for a while for reasons I could probably explain, but not without feeling a disturbance in the force, so let’s just say I’m a bit ‘disenchanted’ with events in general at the moment, and leave it as a story for another day. Or never.
Nik Kershaw, Go West & A Tragic Old Namedropper.
When 80s artists like Go West and Nik Kershaw comes to town now, you can be fairly certain I’ll be busting out something non-age appropriate, limbering up for some embarrassing dance moves, (no need to call an ambulance, I’m fine, that’s just how I dance), and off I go.
(Not so great) Great Southern Bolt.
Last year I flagged the Great Southern Bolt as a goal race, trained real hard, and for all my carrying on had a pretty good run. This year I didn’t, I didn’t, and I didn’t. What a fucking shit show.
Awesome is Possible
Let’s get this one out of the way early. Anything is possible? I call ‘Bullshit!’. Seriously. Bullshit.
Are lots of things possible? Sure. Way more things than you might realize? Absolutely? And are lot of them really fucking cool? You betcha. But ‘Anything’? Sorry to burst your bubble, but some things aren’t possible. I don’t want to dwell on them, but I do need to say it out loud.
If you want to read that ‘anything is possible, the universe will provide’ stuff, you’ll need to go look elsewhere I’m afraid.
Don’t sweat it though, I’m not here to tell you can’t do anything. Quite the opposite. There’s more cool things you can do than you might imagine. You can even do things that aren’t things yet. The world moves fast, so don’t knock yourself out if your dreams of becoming an NBL basketballer are in the toilet. Of if you’ve missed your chance to be an astronaut. They may well be some of the things that simply aren’t possible.
There’ll be those who tell you to not accept limitations, and that’s all well and good, but my chances of becoming a rock star are, give or take, sweet fuck all. That doesn’t mean I can’t listen to music and sing along in the shower, and be quite happy doing it if that’s what I chose to do, (and trust me, I do), but I need to acknowledge some things simply aren’t possible.
And you do too. Accept it. Move on. Any energy spent lamenting those things is energy you could be investing in all the cool stuff that is possible. And that’s what I’ll be mostly talking about here. Not limitations – real or imagined. Not what you can’t do. But all the awesome stuff that is possible.