What is the basis for who you are?

I tend to find that cycling is in some ways therapeutic. Typically while riding alone, your mind tends to wander as the continual sound of the chain meshing with the gears creates a kinda of unique white noise.

It also allows for one to take their mind of the burn in the legs and or lungs. So the last question i contemplated is what defines one? What will one's legacy be?

There are several categories that i see people falling into.

• Family
• Money
• Religion
• Vanity

For me, I hope my legacy will be my family, my daughter whom brings more joy than a trillion dollars, she has really become my motivating factor.

We all need to be grounded in something, there is something that is at the core of us, that is the basis for what / how we make our decisions. It is the very fiber that drives us.

Even if your not particularly religious, fundamental christian values are instilled in us, it is the basis for our government, it by enlarge helps to focus our looking glass of life. One simple illustration would be compare this to radicals of the middle east. They are hell bent on killing, they want to wipe the US and Israel off the map, it would seem that hate has tainted their looking glass of the world.

So my question is when was the last time you truly hated somebody, enough to demand that an entire country be annihilated?

However i would like to think that it is a small percentage of radicals in the Middle East, but i'm not convinced.

So what does define somebody? is it charitable works, is it the wealth they accumulate, is it their bond with their family, is it devotion to God? Obviously all of or some of these factor make up what we are. but ultimately there can be only one core item that is at the root of all of the others.

I would look at it this way, what one factor directs your compass of life?

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