09-11-2020, 04:48 PM
(09-10-2020, 08:23 AM)michael1954_imp Wrote: I just retired and I turn 66 on the 25th this month. I will tell you and it is true. Teaching 'kids' these past 34 years as kept me very young at heart and I believe in body as well. Just conversing with them daily kept me tuned into what kids do nowadays, and they mostly love my 'old' rock music. Most think I am about 50, bless their hearts, but something has kept many wrinkles off of me. Genetics? I like to think it is their young energy I have tapped into for over 3 decades. And now for my motorcycles. They all seem to love them, and I have actually turned several of them onto riding them. They think if I can ride, they certainly, they can too. They seem drawn mostly to the Kawasaki than either CB. Girls seem to like the EX better.
But, reading your comments here makes me feel even better. Knowing that I may be riding 10 years from now keeps from thinking I was at the end of my love of riding. Thanks guys!
This is good description of what I experienced over some decades working with and teaching young people. And still do. Nothing can walk more on your nerves but spread great joy too. This fountain of youth. Kids can show you how the interest for life can be kept. Always. It's not a matter of age.
Mostly when they know that I ride motorbikes and I tell them about it, sometimes show pictures or even the bikes, they like these retros. Some would like to ride too, but there are a lot of reasons why they will not do it. Their hindering parents, money, too lazy for making a driving license, wrong imaginations about motorbike riding that don't fit reality and so on and so on. So it will stay a dream for nearly most of the interested ones. But so what, sometimes dreams, that don't come true, are the best ones.