Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Positive Attitude

I went for a walk along the river on the weekend, the weather was awesome, I was feeling motivated to keep on exercising and try to lose at least 1kg this week. Whilst I was walking along I saw three large fish shadows in the water and tried to take a picture of them but I was too slow. Maybe 20 meters further down the river I came across the quintessential Aussie bloke. He was standing on the banks of the river with a fishing rod in his hand and an esky next to him. He was wearing stubbies, had no top on and had a beer belly. If I'd thought to look I probably would have found that he was wearing thongs. 
I called out to him and accidentally scared him. He said something like "ya scared the shit outta me". I had a quick chat with him about fishing and that I'd just seen three large fish not far from where he was. He hadn't had any luck as yet but had also seen several fish in the area
That encounter got me thinking, you know life isn't really that bad, living where I live is actually pretty good. There aren't too many places in any city where there is a river within a few minutes walk, where you'd feel comfortable fishing in stubbies with no top on. There aren't too many cities where you'd be happy strike up a conversation with a complete stranger and for them to actually engage with you. I was feeling good, I was feeling healthy. I was enjoying the little things in life. It's kind of funny though as recently some of the YouTube channels that I watch have had similar messages of being happy with what you've got and just having a go.
For the whole walk I had some headphones on and was listening to music. I was concentrating on where I was going but I couldn't really hear anything around me. Then for some reason I turned around and there was a guy on a mountain bike approaching me at speed, I don't know what made me turn around as I couldn't hear anything, but if I hadn't turned around at that moment then he probably would have scared the pants off me as he came flying past. As far as I could remember I hadn't looked behind once during the walk so far, so why did I turn around then? Those kind of things really make me think that there is more going on in our heads than we really understand.

Bomber
I see dead people mountain bikes

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