Cycle

After a failed attempt at jogging, I roamed about aimlessly when an idea struck me to have a ride in a cycle, couple of which is lying in the “recreational area”. I was longing since long to ride a cycle sans motor. There was no particular reason for this feeling; it was that just I wanted to have a ride. The 2-3 km ride was a tiring experience, especially for one who is having this after a long time; but I was gleeing all along.

As an infant, I loved going about in a tricycle. Then I became too big for it and got a cycle. After several attempts and many falls, I mastered the art. I used to flaunt it in front of my friends, who flaunted theirs. As I entered teens, the bicycle seemed smaller; so I got a bigger cycle. As years progressed, I learnt to ride a 2 wheeler. Now I started to find the bicycle too childish for my tastes. I tried to reason out why I should get a 2-wheeler to go to a particular place. Sometimes I succeeded to get it, and sometimes I didn’t and had to go around in the cycle. In the first year of my engineering college, only few guys had bicycles. They were always in demand to go a distance, and I became a consistent borrower. But as we spent some time, we got our bikes, and bicycles were either sold or started gathering dust. Riding a bicycle was anyway not cool, and bicycle became bye-cycle. Now few years down the line, I haven’t driven a bicycle for few years. It was such a great experience to have a ride after so many years. Is that life coming full circle?

Naaaaah, but it surely was a great experience.