Should people with kids engage in high risk activities such as motorcycling? They are responsible for raising their kids and they can't do that if they're dead.
This concerns me because if one day (God forbid) I should marry and have children, perhaps one day (God forbid) I may have to remove the ostensibly risky activity of motorcycling from my life. Sell the motorcycle, in other words.
Now I have no intention of getting rid of motorcycling. Ever. No. Not.
Whether having kids is or is not my vocation is not something that is up to me.
However, if it should be, I would be in a pretty position indeed if one is truly so beholden to progeny as to be obligated to stay alive to raise them.
Thoughts? What are the grades of obligation in this context?
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might i suggest talking to one of those parentish types who also happen to have a moto? toque is also a good one for musing such things over with... thus far, i intentionally have no thoughts on the matter... cognitive dissonance as my 'trothed would say...
question: what size is your header pic file? i tried playing with one for my photo page and it came up huge... i was continually cutting it down and then i got frustrated and just took it off... what do i have to do?
hm. I have talked to toque on the matter, and it seems to boil down to a kind of subjective "well, I wouldn't ride on the FREEWAY..." But then toque is more of a car guy in terms of what makes him happy, than a motorcycle guy. So for him, selling his bike wouldn't be like selling his soul. So it's a bit apples and oranges.
I think my image size was about 150k. Tiny. I had to size it way down and make it black and white otherwise it would never load. So yeah Blogger can't take very much. My advice would be to simplify the image as much as possible and crop it rather than resize it. Use the simplest color pallette that will get you by (save it in 16bit instead of 32bit color, etc).
I thought the whole vocation thing was up to God. The motorcycling thing is up to you. I also don't have an opinion. Or rather... I'm torn on it.
People often engage in higher risk activities... risk is involved in most everything we do. So personally, I prefer not to get up in the whole fear aspect of it all. Live your life already! But then again... it's so easy for something like that to blur into negligence or just plain stupidity. Are the benefits really worth the potential costs? As a non-motorcycle-crazed individual that's a difficult assessment for me to make, not just because I don't know what the benefits are but also because obviously enough the costs are hypothetical and uncertain. So basically... it's not something I'd do, but it's also not something I'd make a judgment on someone else over.
Annnd I'm babbling a little. I'll stop.
I don't think I'm to be considered an unbiased contributor to this consideration, being a wife who is very, very prone to worrying.
I have a hard enough time reconciling myself to having such a close friend riding such a contraption, let *alone* a husband. I mean, I know you love riding, so I'm trying to like it intellectually, but it makes me very uncomfy. Thank God the hubby is not the motorcycle type - I'd go insane.
So, maybe the constructive bit you can take from this - your WIFE, when and if she arrives on the scene, may have something to say about it.
Drat.
Which then leads me to a further question: whether or not she will be taken seriously on this matter or rather told that "this is the way it's going to be and deal with it woman" or whether I'll have a different perspective on it by then. It's all hypotheticals anyway so I abandon the consideration. *abandoning consideration*
What a stupid question this was, anyway.
*laughs*
Ever have that kind of chuckle that comes, slowly but strongly, one "heh" at a time, just about 1 second apart?
Hem, I mean... No comment.
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