Here’s a video of a fellow living fully in the moment. No regrets about the past or worries about the future here!
Of course, if I tried it, I would be even more foolish than that gal who got gored by the bison.
July 27, 2015
Living in the Moment
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I lived the whole afternoon moment by moment, first in the traffic, then in the parking lot, then waiting for the lift and finally in a theater unusually full to see a remarkable film. Then the moment to moment experience all over again on the return trip home.
Hopefully the traffic there isn’t quite as dangerous as the mountain biking!
Good grief! I think I’d last about ten seconds on that course before I hurtled off it and ended up with a broken leg or two.
I would be too chicken to even get on the darn thing.
wow. incredible.
well. there’s living in the moment.
then … there’s flirting with death.
what i wondered while watching… what’s the photographer riding? LOLOL!
maybe it’s that drone that was on your post awhile back. 🙂
I was wondering that myself. 🙂
I used to looovve riding downhill on my mountain bike, but the trails I rode were never so technical or quite so breath-taking in their beauty. I have a body memory of one particular run, of climbing up over a ridge I couldn’t see over until the commitment to go down the other side was already made, then dropping down onto a steep incline into an immediate sharp turn at the edge of a ravine and onto a narrow wooden bridge. Successfully biking that section was my 50th birthday present to myself. Now, it’s a beautiful body memory of something I can no longer do.
Thanks for this post for more reasons than prompting that memory. I realized about halfway through that I was smiling at appreciation for this young man’s skill, well beyond anything I ever could do or aspired to do, and not crying over the fact that riding single tracks is beyond me now. Yesterday, I celebrated being able to pedal for seven minutes straight on my stationary bike, a real coup for me now. I didn’t feel a bit deflated when I compared yesterday’s feat to this video or my own memories!
Thanks for all these adventurous “live in the moment” clips. I’m not a person who believes we all have to reach for ridiculously impossible thrills all the time, pushing ourselves for adventures. Contemplation, learning a new riff on a guitar or memorizing a Yeats poem are also thrilling adventures. However, sometimes it’s just fun, isn’t it, to experience much of the thrill with none of the risk!
I agree about being able to have much of the thrill with no risk. I’ve never been coordinated enough to do nearly as much as you used to.
I get my thrills more like you do. I’ve always loved playing with ideas and contemplation, which is a real blessing as we get older. 🙂