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Your Ride Won’t Fix You · The Road Doc Podcast

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  Hello everyone, today I just noticed a few things from the
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  creators app that we have reached international audience.
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  All we did reach international audience already.
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  So we have international audience listening from US,
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  Russia, UAE for now. So I would like to thank
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  everyone who is listening from all over the world.
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  I hope you keep supporting the podcast.
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  For sure, I will gonna bring up interesting topics, real life
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  incidents and everything and share my opinion here.
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  OK, let's just dive into today's topic.
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  Your ride won't fix you. You think the ride will save
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  you? Ride Mosch fiders think that.
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  But the ride can't fix what you are avoiding.
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  The helmet hides your face, but not the truth.
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  So why I am saying this? What does it even mean?
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  I will explain everything in a while.
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  Before that I would like to share something.
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  Today I was just cruising in my dominar in the city, like
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  around. I reached a junction point where
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  the traffic is jam packed and I was just you know just stop my
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  dominar and I was like just chilling in the traffic and out
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  of sudden I was observing somebody noticed me I think a
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  fellow rider on the scooty or something.
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  He noticed me and he wants to show his skills on the road in
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  the traffic. So he was like a revving his
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  scooty left, right and center. And I was like bro actually this
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  is traffic already, this is already jam packed.
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  Why do you need to show off right now?
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  And he is like nothing bro, nothing will happen.
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  What will happen? And he said, I said, dude,
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  listen to me, I am a doctor. I know what will happen.
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  I have seen it. You will end up in the hospital
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  and your life could flip in seconds.
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  And buddy, you are not even wearing a helmet.
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  You need to slow down. I said him in a very calm tone.
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  He was like, you know, whenever people has this tendency, you
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  know, whenever they see the big bikes, so they usually try to,
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  you know, show off their skills and stuff like that.
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  I get it, you get that enthusiasm to show it off, but
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  not really necessary. So he looked at me differently
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  after that. He told, I told him like I don't
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  have to prove anything in traffic.
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  Dude, if you think my bike looks really cool, just say it's cool
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  or you admire it, give a compliment or something, that's
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  fine, that's enough. But don't do this kind of
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  stunts. They won't take you anywhere
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  except danger and everybody here who is there, they will involve
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  in this danger If you do this kind of stunts.
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  Then I added like, you look like somewhere in your 20s.
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  Why do you wanna end up in hospital for one stupid mistake,
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  right? You should not ruin yourself in
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  such a way. And he said he nodded and he was
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  like, thanks bro, thank you so much.
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  I was just, you know, trying to. And I said I understand bro.
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  I do understand what you are trying to do, but don't, it's
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  not necessary. I am not flying away anywhere.
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  I am just here, you saw it. You are stuck in traffic.
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  If you like it, just say you like it.
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  What's wrong with it? Nothing right?
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  And you don't need to. You know, we are not competing
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  or anything. Nobody is competing anybody.
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  I am just going riding around, that's all.
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  So I totally understand. But try to protect yourself and
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  respect others as well in the same moment.
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  Don't make any stupid mistakes on road which will end up badly
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  for everybody who is around. So don't.
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  And he was he was good. Now this guy took everything in
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  a very positive way. He was like admiring bro.
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  Do you have any YouTube channel and Oregon anything or something
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  like that? He is like, yeah, I do have it.
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  But right now we are in traffic and it's moving.
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  So I cannot stop here. Let's just move, move, move.
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  And I was like, I was in a little bit of hurry and I was
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  not able to share anything, but that's OK.
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  But yeah, that was the experience I had literally today
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  before, like 2 to 3 hours before recording this podcast.
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  So you can see, because this is very essential for, you know, I
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  think most people who are in ages between 18 to 30 years,
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  they are taking riding in a different way.
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  They think doing stunts and all those stuff on city roads is
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  fun. No, it is not.
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  It never was and it never will be.
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  You can do all this stuff in race tracks or in, you know,
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  allotted areas or aware of, but not on the street.
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  It is not safe for anyone. Anyways, let's dive into riding
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  as an escape versus riding as a reflection.
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  Like most people get confused here.
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  I know because when I was riding along with a group of people I
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  just realized many people are trying to escape from from their
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  relationships or hard decisions or any self worth issues and
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  their personal issues. Most peoples are trying to do it
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  in a wrong way. I feel like I know riding feels
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  very therapeutic but it is not therapy.
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  I know you feel good and all these things but come on, riding
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  with pain is not equals to riding through pain, OK?
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  It is not according to me. Riding will give you a
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  space-time and everything to bring your mind to single
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  focused zone. That is when you come and attain
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  a calm state like a meditative state.
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  And when you attain to the state, that is when your mind
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  gets basically clear of all noises and you will be able to
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  make that decision what you are trying to make or you get the
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  clarity basically. So that is why most people
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  prefer riding. It is basically for like
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  reflecting everything that happened and trying to get
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  clarity from it. But I noticed on in my
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  experience that most people are trying to escape from the
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  problem. I would like to say from my
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  opinion, escaping from the problem is actually not how it's
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  supposed to be according to me. Because if you're trying to
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  escape from problem after problem, problem after problem,
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  you just keep riding and circling and circling over the
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  same problem and you will not get any solution it.
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  It's going to be like waste of your time.
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  Excuse me. So try to understand that it is
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  not about, you know, escaping from whatever you are doing, but
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  it should be like a reflective ground for you.
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  So that is my take on that. And let us come to the third
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  part of this. I would like to say do not
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  expect the bike to heal your wounds.
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  I know this will be little bit controversial for sure because
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  your bike cannot carry the weight of your emotions.
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  I know we all think that it can carry everything on all those
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  stuff, but no, actually it cannot carry the weight of
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  emotions in a realistic way. Real healing will happen after
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  the ride when you literally park the bike and sit down in
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  silence. That is when actual healing will
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  start according to me. So I always suggest everyone to
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  ride for clarity, not to cover up the chaos because after you
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  ride for certain kilometers you will get the clarity.
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  Most people does and I hope that's how it should be for
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  everyone. But unfortunately it's not.
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  Some people are trying to escape from their own problems or they
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  just don't want to face the reality or something but prefer
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  clarity then escape. Let's just dive into next part
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  what the road can do to you. So while you are writing, it
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  gives you silence, stillness and insights about everything.
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  But it would not necessarily give you solutions unless you
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  ask the real questions, right? So whatever you are going
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  through at that point of time, if you do not ask yourself in
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  that moment the real questions, you will not get any clarity
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  from that. So basically in this universe
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  there is no such thing as no solution to any problem, but all
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  you need to do is cut off all the noise and you need to come
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  into silence and stillness so that you can reflect with
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  precision. That is what I think and of
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  course when you are in that state of mind, definitely the
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  real questions will automatically comes to your
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  head. If you are focused enough, then
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  automatically you will get clarity on solutions as well.
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  But it is not necessary that solution should arrive from it,
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  you know. So it is all depends on you
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  know, people. It varies a lot.
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  Some people will say after riding for 100 kilometers they
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  feel good, some people will say even after riding for 500 I
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  still do not feel anything. So it is not subjective, but the
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  whole it all depends upon what kind of purpose you are riding
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  at that point of time and what is your emotional state, Are you
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  going through some sort of difficult situations in life,
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  pain, etcetera. All these things definitely
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  comes into the play. So yeah, my final thoughts on
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  this is right to process all those things, but not to
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  postpone it, you know, right to reflect, not to run away.
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  Your ride would not fix you, but it can help you find you.
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  Alright, we are not looking for perfection here, but it will
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  definitely help you in many, many ways.
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  So that's my final thoughts and hopefully I will, I guess
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  everybody understood what I am trying to say and share my
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  thoughts here. Thank you so much for listening.
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  Now another episode will be dropping soon on next Saturday,
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  6:00 PM, so stay tuned. Bye.