When you are young you see older kids doing things you will not be able to master for a long time.  You want to be able to do everything at once, without any help at all.

One of the things I wanted to be able to do right away, when I was about six, was ride one-handed on my bicycle.  I had just gotten my training wheels off a couple of weeks earlier.  So the problem was I still was not skilled at riding a bike with only two wheels.

I wanted to be a big girl right then and there.  Son one bright and sunny summer morning, I went to meet my friend Jamie Green.  She had already mastered the feat that I longed to accomplish.

We were at the base of a giant hill at the trailer court that we liven in.  Not wanting to take time to slowly learn the way to ride one-handed, took my left hand off the handle bars while I was moving at warp speed up that giant hill.

Down I fell.  I can remember hitting the ground and than everything going black.

I woke up lying on Jamie's Porch on a ratty old couch.  I can remember Jamie's mom stading over me adminstering band-aids to my legs and then everything going black again.

The agian woke up to my mom asking me if I was o.k. over and over on the way to my house in m mothers old Mercury.  Of course I was not.  I was bleeding out of both knees, elbows and I had even managed to scrap up my cheek and also my chin.  Lets just say that I was in a lot of pain for awhile.

I learned one valuable lesson.  You should always take your time while trying to learn something that will take along time to master.

Somethings take awhile.

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