Birthday Ride up PCH

Despite the June gloom last Friday I decided to jump on my bike and cruise up the coast. Somewhere between Zuma and Neptune's Net I started to feel an overwhelming amount of gratitude. After a self-induced stressful week of placing my energy into all the wrong things (i.e. turning the big, scary 3-0 and the new wrinkles that have set into the sides of my eyes, not having a definitive career and making more money, eating too many cupcakes and not doing enough cardio, never learning to speak Spanish, not traveling enough in my 20's, and never buying that vintage mirror from my favorite little shop in Desert Hot Springs). Sometimes it takes a ride on my motorcycle and an open road for me to come back to earth and remember that I have lived a great life thus far and have many memories and things to be grateful for. It reminds me of this great quote I heard a few years ago:


“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” 

― Epicurus


At the end of the day I chop it up to this; 30 is just a number and I feel great, I have my health and my hair, my family and my friends, I live in an amazing city where the sun shines nearly 365 days a year, I have acquired a pretty fabulous shoe collection and I own a BMW K1200S with a custom paint job and an upgraded exhaust that hauls ass at the flick of the throttle. Life is good.