Wednesday 15 November 2017

The wibbley-wobbley path of life


We haven't seen the Danish girl on a bike for a while so I thought I would pull her out for an airing.

When I was 21 I bought a one-way plane ticket to Copenhagen. I never used it. Things could be so different for me now if I had. Not necessarily better, just different.
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15 comments:

  1. The Weaver of Grass15 November 2017 at 02:30

    Life is full oF ROADS NOT TAKEN for us all Tom - in other words full of regrets
    and pleasures.

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  2. Rachel Phillips15 November 2017 at 02:33

    I saw that picture in a book in the library recently. The book didn't look terribly exciting so perhaps you didn't miss much.

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    1. Tom Stephenson16 November 2017 at 02:18

      I don't know why I selected Copenhagen. Maybe it was because I was reading the Norse Sagas at the time.

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  3. Yael15 November 2017 at 02:43

    https://vintagebikesmelbourne.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/4923756645_c44b6e7340_z.jpg Here you can see the whole picture:)

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    1. Tom Stephenson16 November 2017 at 02:18

      I found the whole picture when I first saw the image, Yael. I cropped all the boring architecture out of it...

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  4. Vivian15 November 2017 at 04:51

    Why didn't you go to Copenhagen? I once bought a one-way ticket, too; I was 29 and I went to Galway (it was 1985 and I loved U2 and I'd never been to Ireland and I'm not the least bit Irish so I thought well, why not, it's a good starting place for a 'round-the-world trek). It has made all the difference.

    I was lucky that when I was in my teens I came across the idea (from an old person) that old people don't regret the things they DID as much as they regret the things they DID NOT do, and so I made a point of doing stuff. . . and that bit of wisdom turns out to be true.

    Now I have to go google Danish girl on bike. Is she iconic in a way that I don't know about?

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    1. Tom Stephenson16 November 2017 at 02:22

      The mother of my daughter asked me to stay, having spent the previous 9 months asking me to go away.

      I think it is true about regrets for things not done. Phillip Larkin said that if he could do it all over again, he would have had more sex.

      The girl on the bike has no other significance to me than that she is strikingly good-looking.

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  5. Cro Magnon15 November 2017 at 08:10

    When I was about 21 I bought a one-way ticket to Rome, then just before the flight I received a 'Dear John' letter, and went to Paris instead. I was heart broken.

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    1. Tom Stephenson16 November 2017 at 02:24

      I think I know who author of the Dear John letter to whom you refer. She was about as good-looking as the girl on the bike.

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  6. John Going Gently15 November 2017 at 11:39

    She looks rather slim

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  7. Tom Stephenson16 November 2017 at 02:26

    To be reincarnated as a sentient bicycle saddle...

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  8. Bea16 November 2017 at 20:21

    May I ask why you didn't take the trip to Copenhagen?

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