To start living is now

from How Does My Brain Work?
http://endoflifecare.tripod.com/kidsyoungadults/id24.html

Think back to the first time
you rode a bike.
Your brain had to think
about pedaling,
staying balanced,
steering with the handlebars,
watching the road,
and maybe even hitting the brakes
- all at one time.

Hard work, right?

But eventually,
as you got more practice,
the neurons
sent messages back and forth
until a pathway was created
in your brain.

Now you can ride your bike
without thinking about it,
because the neurons
have successfully created
a "bike" pathway

from My eMail to Dr. Teresa Gustilo-Villasor Papers on 3/27/08

"Dear God: Please give me a bike.
Since you are God, you must know
the best bike for me.
Please write back."

I remember in my childhood days
writing the same prayer to God,
asking him for a bike or
asking him that those friends of mine
will give me or lend me forever
one of their bikes.

I must confess I waited,
but of course God did not write me back.
I had my own old three-wheel bike then,
but I am so excited to have a two-wheel bike.
I had this fascination on how to learn
the dynamics of balance riding a two-wheel bike.
All these efforts to let gravity helped me
as I started to shake,
the shifting of my weight side to side
to get my balance back,
and the practice I had to do
again and again
until I get my perfect balance
are the thrills of my journey
to live a balance life:
always being there to everyone
without losing myself in the process.

I may neither a great bike-rider myself
nor have a two-wheel bike now,
but I have learned though the years
the dynamics of a balance life:
embracing life with faith
by living courageously,
by willingly accepting what life gives me and
by being inspired by its purpose:
the love and joy life brings.
The time to start living is now,
and that has been my choice.