It's a pedal, paddle, pedal life

Just like most things in my life, there are a butt load of things I've always wanted to do but never got the chance to do but now finally starting to do and they turned out to be the only things I want to do anymore. You feel me?

I talked about travelling in my previous post but this time it's about sports.

It has been my life long dream to play soccer, I had once quit a good job with a good pay just because it was coinciding with the FIFA 2010 schedule of the team I was supporting - Spain, but alas it was worth it because David Villa was the bomb.com and they won against cheating, violent, faux-flopping Germany (at the time). I still haven't gotten around to that so...maybe we'll talk about that on another day.

This one's about Dragon Boat Paddling and Cycling

Dragon Boat Paddling was just a happenstance for me however, I had never heard about it, I didn't know the difference between paddling and rowing, and me having a crippling fear of what lies beneath the ocean (although I've surfed a couple of times, I'm weird, I know) I never really thought about it until that one faithful EIGHT months where I couldn't find a job and I had already gained what seemed to be the weight of a toddler inside me (I got fat, that's what I mean, I talk too much), and it felt like my life was going nowhere - literally, being a traveler stuck at home? I was one break down away from insanity.

This boat has now become my life raft, so to speak. It's exhausting but exhilarating at the same time, it's seeing people working together towards the same goal, it's people respecting each other, helping each other, teaching each other.

Sure in my heart of hearts I felt like why wasn't I good enough at this, I've done it like...2 times?? But this was an inner debate with myself that was probably rooting from the insecurities that had built up in those 8 months and the so called "quarter life crisis" (light bulb! next blog topic! lol) after those 2 times up to today where in another 2 days I'll be participating in my first ever dragon boat race (hopefully) - the thoughts had turned to remembering orders, minding my technique, following the pace of the person in front of me, counting in my head and telling myself to breathe - this may seem like a lot but to me a serial over-thinker THIS means salvation.

It's like an out of body experience where I don't have to be anything, I don't have to be anyone or anywhere where there is external pressure or worse internal pressure. It's just me, this boat, this paddle and this team - Firebase Alpha

Oh and I also think about, why are fiber glass paddles so darn expensive?

I know I'm still considered a newbie in the team, but huhu. I love it so much I wanna die, charot.

Now onto biking, it pretty much only has to do with the fact that I've been wanting to lose weight, save some money instead of paying for overly expensive cabs, the feeling of the air on my skin and face while it's still winter, and a middle finger to the man for thinking women in hijabs are limited because of their religious choices - a piece of fabric will not be the barrier between myself and everything I want to do - and there's a lot of those.

Charot, again. I'm just cheap really, frugal (or kuripot, if you please) is my middle name.

Here's my bike sehnsucht

(Sehnsucht is a German noun translated as "longing", "pining", "yearning", or "craving", or in a wider sense a type of "intensely missing".) - in this case it means yearning to travel.

Love and light,

Sarah, the _____ :)

To find out the story behind this ^^^ here you go:
https://steemit.com/life/@sarahwanderlust/a-woman-in-search-of-a-word