Life is like a pedalo.
If you’re lucky, there’s two of you in the boat…
But it’s never balanced.
The rudder doesn’t work how you think it should, or want it to,
AND
If you do pedal forwards your feet are in a foot of water.
Whatever course you’d planned to take, those plans will change as soon as you take on water.
(You WILL take on water.)
Standing on the sidelines, it looks like great fun.
It never feels like that once you’re in the boat…
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A Certain Point of View 
Ah yes, yet another grand adventure I have yet to experience. Gee, methinks this week you are tosing fish into my bucket list!
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tossing even… lol
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I wouldn’t add this one to the bucket list… Punting in Oxford or Cambridge would be my choice on land-based water… Better still, having a glass of wine and some soft cheese as you recline at one end of a punt, while someone competent propels you forward!
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Now that sounds much more appealing. 🙂
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Interesting analogy. So true. I wobble my way through life and sometimes take on water and panic. lol
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Trying, and failing, to get a pedalo to go where you want it to gives you time to reflect on these things! That’s me and my five year old in the pic, on holiday last week 🙂
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Wonderful!
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You are so right about that! I can’t stand those boats…LOL! They make me feel like I’m completely not in control. 😀
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That was my first experience of them… I never felt even partially in control!
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LOL! It is, however, lots of fun watching people going in circles in those things while I’m standing safely on shore. 😀
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I must have provided plenty of entertainment for the onlookers!
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People love those who can make them laugh…so there ya go: you’re well-loved! 😀
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Whatever course you’d planned to take, those plans will change as soon as you take on
water.
(You WILL take on water.)
This really had me chuckling, but it is also so so very true. Great piece.
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Thank you 🙂
This started as a bit of a joke, but I think there’s a motivational poster waiting to burst free from this!
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It’d make for an awesome motivational poster! :0
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