CHAPTER 7
Steer Left. Turn Right.
I remember the day my colleagues at work all came to see me. One by one, they had learned I was taking up motorcycling, and finally they decided they needed to do an intervention of sorts. As a group they walked in to figure out what in the world I was up to and hopefully, talk me out of it.
“Do you know how dangerous that is?”
“Are you wearing a helmet?”
“You’re taking a safety course, aren’t you?”
And then someone voiced what was on all of their minds:
“What if something happens to you? What will happen to us?”
And all along I’d been thinking they were concerned about me.
“Well, that, too,” they said.
I got it, of course. They loved me and cared about me. They didn’t want anything bad to happen to me. But they ...
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