During long cycling journeys one adapts a very efficient way of functioning: Getting up early, refueling (because it really isn't eating at that point!), packing the gear and hitting the road. One break every ten or twenty kilometers. Remembering to drink once a while. Then in due time setting up camp, cooking and maybe reading a page or two before going to sleep. Over and over again.
Now this might sound like bad thing for those who cherish personal freedom above all else. But really, it's quite the opposite. Indeed, there's something very liberating about this kind of life. It is, I think, an escape from the stress creative work invariably brings along. Now suddenly all of one's capacity is focused on the present. The future is still behind the corner in the most literal sense, and the past, well, that's something already taken care of. No point in dwelling on the steep uphill you just climbed, as you are now free to enjoy the cool downhill.
But, as with everything in life, there needs to be balance. Therefore one needs to find safe havens where one is allowed to recharge and not be all purpose driven. To just sit down and breath. Knowing at the same time that without the effort put in, the recharging would be –and even more importantly feel– pointless.
As in design it is all about contrast. Without contrast life will be nothing but flat and dull.
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