To go Higher, you have to go Lighter.

-John C. Maxwell

I heard this quote earlier this year and it has been sounding off in my head ever since. This is just another case of how everything in life relates. If we apply the correct racetrack mentality to life, we could pretty much have life figured out. Easier said than done. Knowing that it all relates. How does a slow point relate to life? This is for us to figure out.

I hang onto stuff. We all hang onto stuff. It’s not ones and zeros, but rather where you lay in between. Hoarders could be 0.999, where a monk could be 0.001. I love dirt bikes. I always wanted a green Kawasaki dirt bike since I was a little kid and finally got one in 2018. I recently sold that dirt bike.

My dog, Enzo, LOVES to go mountain biking with me on the trails behind our neighborhood. We went mountain biking many times throughout this off season. I never went dirt bike riding this past off season. Life revealed what my true off season trainer is, my mountain bike. Enzo could leave me in the dust going uphill, and I could do the same to him going down. However, I sacrifice my joy in downhill speed to go at his pace so he doesn’t develop an injury.

When I was cleaning my dirt bike for photos to post on Craigslist, I felt sad. Until Enzo was looking at me and wagging his tail, wondering why am I sad. Then it hit me! What am I supposed to do, leave him in the trailer or truck while my wife and I go hit the trails on our off road vehicles? My wife and I used to go ride the trails out at Tahuya, but that came to an end when we got Enzo. Although the dirt bike creates exhilaration on the times I got to ride it, Enzo creates continuous joy. The look on his face after we have gone mountain biking will remove any sadness of a dirt bike that I used once or twice a year. Now that it’s been a couple of days since I sold my dirt bike, I don’t miss it at all. It was holding me back, holding me down. It was added weight and kept me from going higher.

King of the Mountain (Enzo).