IG.
Registered
Not a lot of new threads lately. As I look at the bottom of the screen, I see a very revealing picture. A handful of registered users are online, and a huge number of guests/unregistered users as you can see from the screen shot below. Anywhere from 15 times, 20 times, or even 30 times exceeding the number of registered users.
And I am thinking to myself that our collective experience would be so much richer if all of you guys shared your experiences and knowledge.
I understand there may be a number of reasons to simply read the posts, and not actively participate. Maybe you are just not used to communicating with others online, maybe you are shy by nature, maybe you think your English is not so good, maybe you feel that you cannot bring anything of value, etc. You are so wrong! I can assure you that even things which you feel are trivial to you, may be of interest to other people.
I was in a very similar situation as you are right now: new rider, a bit shy, not so good English, not sure how others will react. But I felt that in the long run, only through communication with others could I learn something, and make my own life richer. Heck, I dug out my very first post on this board, and here it is.
Click on the link below:
https://www.hayabusa.org/forum/general-bike-related-topics/5526-new-member-question.html
I learned so much here, benefiting from this vast collective knowledge. There is always someone who can help with an issue, or simply give you an advice, maybe share similar experience. Please understand that the virtual world of the Internet didn't change our human nature. Behind ever post, every phrase, and every word there is a humble human soul which sometimes longs for communication, sharing experiences, making a joke, or finding new friends.
Actively participating in such exchange of thoughts, ideas, and experiences goes far beyond a chit-chat prevailing on Twitter and Facebook. It is the deepness and thoughtfulness of the process. We are not in a rush to blurt out an answer. It is a rather calm (although at times heated) conversation which may take minutes, hours, days, and even weeks. Some threads live on for years!
I know many of you thought so many times about it, and were about to register and participate, but that little doubt in your mind always stops you at the last moment.
I can tell you one thing: always follow your first impulse. I am talking about that subtle thought which enters your mind completely unprovoked, stays there for a few seconds, and if not acted upon vanishes as quickly as it appeared. I will tell you a secret... It is never a coincidence, but a hint from above gently guiding you through your life experiences. Learn to recognize them, and follow without much of a thought. If you start thinking too hard about it, it ruins everything and only seeds a doubt which prevents you from acting upon it.
Find that little bit of extra strength to jump over that invisible barrier. You won't be sorry you did.
Why am I writing about it, all of a sudden? I had an impulse to do so, and simply wrote what I felt without holding back.
Cheers!
And I am thinking to myself that our collective experience would be so much richer if all of you guys shared your experiences and knowledge.
I understand there may be a number of reasons to simply read the posts, and not actively participate. Maybe you are just not used to communicating with others online, maybe you are shy by nature, maybe you think your English is not so good, maybe you feel that you cannot bring anything of value, etc. You are so wrong! I can assure you that even things which you feel are trivial to you, may be of interest to other people.
I was in a very similar situation as you are right now: new rider, a bit shy, not so good English, not sure how others will react. But I felt that in the long run, only through communication with others could I learn something, and make my own life richer. Heck, I dug out my very first post on this board, and here it is.
Click on the link below:
https://www.hayabusa.org/forum/general-bike-related-topics/5526-new-member-question.html
I learned so much here, benefiting from this vast collective knowledge. There is always someone who can help with an issue, or simply give you an advice, maybe share similar experience. Please understand that the virtual world of the Internet didn't change our human nature. Behind ever post, every phrase, and every word there is a humble human soul which sometimes longs for communication, sharing experiences, making a joke, or finding new friends.
Actively participating in such exchange of thoughts, ideas, and experiences goes far beyond a chit-chat prevailing on Twitter and Facebook. It is the deepness and thoughtfulness of the process. We are not in a rush to blurt out an answer. It is a rather calm (although at times heated) conversation which may take minutes, hours, days, and even weeks. Some threads live on for years!
I know many of you thought so many times about it, and were about to register and participate, but that little doubt in your mind always stops you at the last moment.
I can tell you one thing: always follow your first impulse. I am talking about that subtle thought which enters your mind completely unprovoked, stays there for a few seconds, and if not acted upon vanishes as quickly as it appeared. I will tell you a secret... It is never a coincidence, but a hint from above gently guiding you through your life experiences. Learn to recognize them, and follow without much of a thought. If you start thinking too hard about it, it ruins everything and only seeds a doubt which prevents you from acting upon it.
Find that little bit of extra strength to jump over that invisible barrier. You won't be sorry you did.
Why am I writing about it, all of a sudden? I had an impulse to do so, and simply wrote what I felt without holding back.
Cheers!
after 5 years. You're only an hour north 
