They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, I see it with endless hedgerows of exercise bikes. I'll admit it's a bit smokey; I can't tell if they are really exercise bikes or just lousy metaphors! Let's look at the life span of a stationary bike. Decide you're out of shape. Decide you need to get in shape. Buy an exercise bike, that'll do it. Bring bike home and put it in the t.v. room. Ride the bike and watch t.v.. Ride the bike more, watching t.v. and have a cup holder installed for your pop. Move bike next to end table where you can get to your plate of snacks. When that gets old, move the bike into the back spare bedroom. Move bike to the garage. Hang waders on bike to dry. Cover bike with painting tarp. Attempt to sell bike at garage sale. After sale is over take bike to 2nd hand store. Guess what? They have so many outdated bikes, they don't want your bike! Take your bike back home and put it out for the trash. It doesn't fit in the trash can so you set your bike next to it for all the neighbors to see on their way to work. Hit a little too close to home? Damn skippy!
Like the exercise bike, we all have ideas about what we think we need, to fix what we either have or don't want to have. Sometime the best solution is to remove something old as opposed to adding something new. Go around instead of buying something that will allow you to go over. Stop doing this and start doing that. It's just a different way of looking at things. Take a look around and see how many exercise bikes you have cluttering up the joint. Make better choices, ask great questions, and lord sakes, think outside the box. If you keep looking for those quick fixes and magic elixirs.......................... you're just spinning your wheels.
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