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How impotent is your ardor?
Do you even care about some of the things that you used to live for as your younger self?
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10-09-2023, 09:17 AM
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Is this question for me ??? As I get older & older, I notice things about myself changing in this respect. Since a bunch of physical activities I used to enjoy aren't options any more, I find my initiative feels like it's fading away. I don't find myself tearing into things like I used to. I have a permeating feeling of "Been There, Done That" which isn't good. I fight the urge to relax & look at the scenery.
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10-09-2023, 10:43 AM
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No. I used to live to ride motorcycles. I was on the bike every time I had the chance ripping up the back country roads. I bought a brand new bike in 97, sold it (to upgrade) in 99 with over 30k miles.
I rode my current bike less than 40 miles this summer.
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10-09-2023, 10:47 AM
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Ardor is one of the best, most descriptive words I know.
My ardor has waned for just a few things, sports cars mostly. I will do another one when we move from the farm and I have started looking. If nothing hits I am good....the absence of ardor.
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10-09-2023, 11:25 AM
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My ardor for things past has indeed waned but I have found new objets d'amour on which the waves of my ardor may crash.
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10-09-2023, 11:53 AM
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I have had 3 distinct passions in life, 4 if you can count it.
Rowing Cooking Cars: fixing, restoring, driving 4 is Lifelong learning, and a weak 5th is adventure where I do things like purposely buy a motorcycle on the wrong coast so I can ride across country, buy Scirocco fenders in England so I can go and ship them back, show up in New Zealand with nothing more than a tent to see what will happen. The only one I am not steeped in is rowing and that will change in a year or two depending on the cartilage in my right shoulder which has been technically gone for 3 years but I seem to have habituated the pain without the need for steroid injections or Advil. We'll see. But these are things that I am passionate about, addicted to, and am always wanting to do more of each, push boundaries and see what I can go. Endless. But life long learning, that's where the fun is at. Isn't this brilliant? And make you want to learn more?
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10-09-2023, 01:20 PM
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Gretchen
