Robots are cool

JMC died ten years ago. I remember when it I first read about it. This isn’t really a post about him – it’s more about me wondering how ten years have gone past since then. I mean… wow, ten years!

For those who don’t know, Jason McRoy was a leading UK downhill racer at the time and general handy lad on a bike. Most notably, for me at least, he was in the Dirt video (came out about the time he died if I remember correctly) which is probably the most inspirational video I’ve seen. Sure, being fifteen and highly impressionable definitely helped, but this thing was special. It just summed up pretty much everything biking was about at the time for me. Obviously they were stacks better than us, but they weren’t really doing anything we weren’t doing every night after school. There wasn’t any triple backflip 360 superman crap, just a bunch of guys going out and messing about on their bikes on some pretty ordinary looking trails. Stonking stuff. Ten years since that video. Crazy.

But, of course, it’s not that crazy really – more stuff has happened since then than I could ever remember, nevermind write down. Life has been full to the brim and then some. I’ve changed, my friends and family have changed, in fact everything seems to have changed so much. But I think back over the last ten years and have very few regrets. My life has been brilliant so far. Not always good, but brilliant nontheless. And that’s important. Maybe I’ll read this post in ten years and think the same thing. I hope so.

Note to self in 2015: presumably life still consists of running about doing cool stuff. If so, there’s a chance you’ve been too busy to do all those cool things you dreamt about. You’re running out of time. Quit work and spend all your money if you have to, but get them done.