Connecting the Dots

So today I was driving. No big deal right. After 7 years it's pretty easy right? Put on your seat belt, start the engine, put the car into drive, let off the brake, hit the gas, and go. All of this is second nature to us now. It's like walking, chewing, jumping, swimming, and all the other things we learn in our lives that you don't really pause to think about after you've learned them.

Maybe it's the heat and humidity in Charleston getting to me but it makes me wonder why don't think of this as more amazing. We're all too young when we learn to walk to remember the process. Certainly we all shared bruises and scrapped knees during the process, but now we just put one foot in front of the other and think nothing of it.

Most people can prob remember learning to ride a bike. I remember the roads I was on with one of my parents holding the back of seat on my bike while I tried to gain my balance so I could let go. I remember the freedom of getting around once I could ride without training wheels. Of course when you're that young staying out after dark is liberating enough, but you know what I mean.

Now, while riding a bike is still second nature (I might've lost some of the immediate balance when I got back on it 10 years later...), it doesn't have the same thrill. The feeling of success has taken a back burner to the notion my mind has that "I know how to do this, what's next?" A bike now is the thing I hop on 5 minutes before class and speed down the street hoping to find a moderatly empty bike rack.

I guess I'm just amazed at what human beings can learn to do so easily to the point that it is second nature. Again, heat and humidity contributing to my dehydration has much to do with this, but it's still interesting. I guess.



I feel like I had more of a point to this when I started contemplating this in the car...oh well. Here it is.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.- Jim Rohn