Ride off into the sunset

I finally sold my bike, which also in a way an end of a time in my life where that bike meant so much to me. I like making one major purchase every year or two in order to capture that period in life. It reminds me of what I was thinking, wanting, avoiding, and any other reason why I make purchases. But I must say I am sad to see it gone. The next person should treat it well.j On the other hand, I am glad that it is gone, because in some weird but unexplainable way, I felt that anchor me too. It is true that sometime to make things better is to just get rid of some things.

Had dinner with B yesterday before heading over to J's birthday party. The topic of mini retirement came up. It is an interesting idea. So basically it is saying start having your retirement when you can. He talked about 10 year, or maybe 5 years, or maybe 2 years. What ever the time frame is, you are officially telling yourself that you are retired. He got this idea from something he read from an article which said this was common among generation Y. That generation saw how their parent saved and struggled. Then they wait to cash in until official retirement age. So may experience great illness or even lead to death while that person worked toward that retirement day. What is sad to this idea is by retirement age, the things that you once wanted can very well be less attractive or disappear due to just a basic factor of age. So this conversation went on and while the alcohol buzz slowly flow through from head to toe and came up with an observation. What is it that when it comes to money or job, we like to stick around when time are tough while we are very likely to leave when time are good. Whereas when it come to other things such as going to a place to eat, when thing are bad you leave that place and then you go somewhere better. You nature instinct is to avoid the negative and seek positive. So, what I was trying to say was that time will always move forward and while times are tough you live your life (by taking what is bad now and turn it into something good for yourself), while when time are good you are still living you life (because when you are working when times are good, it just doesn't seem like work as much). Otherwise you just struggle when times are bad and struggle less (because seeing how you are missing out on the opportunity) while the good times arrive. It sounds to me, we are just not living very efficiently or better yet not utilizing time very well. So with that I have to ponder on his suggestion and then wonder what is the duration of that mini retirement. He said I would be bored by 2 years.

So one good thing happened (by selling my bike) lead to one bad thing to occur. It must of been last night while I my car is parked near New Montgomery, my bumper got hit while someone was either trying to get out of or get into the parking space. People are such a**holes in SF. They have no respect for other people's property. I find that they can boast about the weather and how great the place in comparison to other place. Which only SF people do that. Which also makes me wonder why they have to compare because no one is competing with them. Or maybe it is like a short guy wanting to buy a red Porsche. Yet this crap happens all the time and for some reason people do this kind of thing while the locals just reach with acceptance of it being the status quo. My observation about SF is that they boast how people are nice, but yet when you look deeply into who they are (I am generalizing) they are really are acting for like a closet elitist. They say they care about the macro topics by making loud claim on the environment, health care, rights, etc... and yet on the micro level they separate themselves from other people not like them. I know being fake is everywhere and in other cities, but at least at other places they don't boast on how great their city is and hide behind on the macro issues.