I don’t know, is that Zen?
My bike shifts gears again. My knives cut tomatoes again. What joy to ride a tuned-up bike! What joy to use a sharpened knife! The improvement is huge– they had both degenerated to the point of not working before I took them in for repair. If I hadn’t done that, would I appreciate them as much now?
On a related theme, check out the story of Floyd Landis postponing the replacement of his shattered, painful hip until after the Tour de France. Yikes.
