Saddle Time

Easter. Time to go see the family of origin and celebrate one of the most confused holidays of the year. Jesus and the Easter Bunny.

With weather like the last few days, the obvious plan was to make the round trip by bicycle. It's 29 miles one way according to goggle, but that's via the highway. I was on a pretty direct route on the LRT trail, so the mileage was a little shorter than that, but not much.

What do you think about for 2.5 hours of riding time each way?

deception
being lied to
losing your trust
feeling isolated

The ramifications of last year's events are overwhelming me today. I placed my trust in someone to share their life with me. I shared my life with her. To realize that is was a sham from the day we walked in the door together. To know that every day was a performance, a deception.

Why would someone want to live that life? What could be gained? That's the marketer in me trying to analyze the situation. The shrink would ask 'What did that give that person, what did they need?'

I'm not that person, so I can't answer these question. In fact, I don't actually know that person. I just spent time with their scripted character. Any guess I would venture would be based on the facade of who she tried to be. One thing does remain. It feels so good to be away from all that.

Tonight I'm a little farther away from it all, and it feels good to be tired from a long ride.