Going Places: New Zealand With Anka Martin - Video

 @WAKIdesigns: Dude, i am 25 and my daughter is almost a year old now. Everyone has a different passion, who the F*^& are you to draw such conclusions about me? I am happy with my life, iv done a lot to get where i am now, and i am where i want to be, i am a designer. I enjoy going into work everyday. Go back under your bridge man... Im not done yet

 @WAKIdesigns: No need to make this personal, i wish your family the best man. But you haven't even met me, and your going to tell me what i haven't learned in my life? That's ripe! The truth is, you can have everything you need, just not everything you want..

 @WAKIdesigns: quite arrogant

 Everybody just needs to CALM DOWN

 @WAKIdesigns: Not sorry for trying to be some what positive

 @WAKIdesigns: I come here for the comments ~ especially yours haha

Each to there own

Im thankful to be a kiwi as I am chillasfuk

 @WAKIdesigns: haha, Waki drops some wisdom and gets shit on. That's Pinkbike.
Don't worry Waki, I appreciated it. You got 1.

 @scary1

Honestly there is a part of me that looks ar Sven Marins website and screams "what a life". I am so amazed with their photos and way they travel around the world riding bikes. That part of me screams: go do it, this is the dream, you can adjust your family and work so that you too can achieve that! Stop this plant-like existence! But then there's part of me that likes my job, part that finds it very meaningful to draw houses for people to live in, offices to work in, hotels to shag in. Then there's my family, my genome hahaha i just see all those things that put me where I am, I am master of nothing but I am excellent at a few things and I feel great about it. I serve the swarm, but why is it a bad thing? Why the hell do we hear peopke talking aboutbecoming, bikers, poets artists and we think: oh how great, that man/woman lives a passion, but then you hear about someone being a secretary or accountant and we feel: oh nooo. All this sht about dentists buying santa Cruz Bronsons with ENVE kits, what the fk is weong with dentists?! How stupid are you?! McGazza or Stevie Smith dies, oooh they died doing what they love, some roadie dies: "a fkng doper, probably deserved it".

This worship of top of the food chain of peer group is sad, it is just sad. the more we gravitate from admiration to blind worship the more we need to put ourselves down, it is an inevitable logical mechanism, and the only way to deal with it is putting blinds on, cross out everything you are and what you achieved, who you lived with and turn on some blind belief that one day I will do that what they do if I only work hard (and keep on putting skeletons into the closet as a result)

I don't know how is that a positive thinking. The epitome of that is "what if money were no object" lecture by Alan Watts that went viral on youtube three years ago. It was acut out from a 24 minute long lecture, where he explains everything further and it ain't that simple and cheesy afterwards. But someone whored it down by cutting it out, and adding inspirational footage and the worst bit with those is that we don't look at them as a tool to get a 20min kick of motivation, excellent during workout or when working at your job. Instead we look at it as a recipe for life. For life of everyone.

 @scary1: Wisdom or deluded beliefs... Its hard to tell sometimes

 @WAKIdesigns: Hey, what im saying, and what you think im saying.. two different things. Everyone needs to come to terms with their own nature, and with that their own level of needs. What one person see's as a dream job, others see as a prison. I think you need to re-read some of your self help books, and meditate on the principles of quantum physics, yea.. ride that wave, and when you arrive at a point, perhaps your over saturated mind can make some sense of our lives, and you can come back here and inform me. Good day sir....

 @zion-i: sorry, I overreacted since the archetype of the hero is on my mind a lot lately. But... According to quantum physics you can be right and wrong at the same time, depending on who's watching

Cheers!

 @WAKIdesigns: perfectly said. Amazingly, you still got negged. Probably from those who cant derive meaning from a simple life.
Ive done and accomplished all the ancillary things ive wanted to in my life. I work at my own business for over 20 years and still love it,but nothing is quite like that twinge i get when i pull up to the house and get to see my family again,everyday. Everything else is pretty empty,at the end of the day,without them.

 @zion-i: its okay,been reading his stuff for a while. Its always intriguing and never anything to get pissed off about. But, im old and curmudgeonly,so i appreciate someone who uses their brain for thinking and not just feeling everything.

 @scary1: I only get pissed when yea take digs at my family! I respect what he's saying, he's a smart guy, and everyone benefits from a good argument, can always learn something from listening to one another's perspective.
We feel with our heart thought, our brains aren't the only organ that's capable of perception (thinking or feeling). Balance is key I suppose

 @zion-i: sounds about right

 @zion-i: I didn't take a dig at your family, Jesus Heist

 teach the kids from an early age disney is evil .and you will never have to go there

 She won't remember Disney Land anyway. Teach her to ride while she's little, though, and she'll remember it and be fast AF for the rest of her life!

 Right there with you @Shredthenoob ...in fact, I'm heading out now!

 I know, I hate this time of year the weather is getting nice but damn finals get in the way!

 I did see various specialists and they say it's not that. It's a self inflicted permanent rectal disfunction, where sht comes out either through mouth or through fingers onto keyboard.Any subject can become a laxative. Diarrheis Verbalis Onlinnea.

 inderdaad

 No shit bro, isn't that what 95% of pinkbike videos are? This was nothing but inspiring, who cares about the promo factor.

 Maybe, but at least it's enjoyable and inspiring promo. Let go of that British cynicism. I moved to New Zealand a years ago and it's helping me let go of mine.... and I feel much better for it.