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I woke up this morning, wanting more sleep. I couldn’t have it. I rode my bike to my part-time job, wanting a car. I couldn’t have it. I want a million dollars, and… (well, most people have to work for that.)

Here’s what this all comes down to: humans are wired with a craving. It’s not so much a craving for *things*, but for *satisfaction*. As I am sitting here, teasing this out, I have time and time again observed people trying to satisfy with material possessions what some people call the “God-shaped vacuum” inside of each one of us.

Right now, I feel like I’m in a really, really dangerous place in life. Let me explain: I love music. I am so passionate about writing and performing – and listening to others play. I am single-mindedly pursuing to achieve notoriety with my music and to play for a living to hundreds of fans all across the world. And I am misguided if I think that these things will satisfy my deepest longings and desires.

This is the danger: to pursue with deepest passion those things which are of lesser importance. There is no such thing as “rock ‘n’ roll immortality.” Every image fades. Even with better technology, what we capture on HD today will only be a small essence of the true rockstar in fifty years.

So this is an admonition and a call to action: a life of value is spent pursuing valuable things – not fleeting things. “The grass withers and the flower fades…”

Most of you probably don’t know this, and I want you to know it. About a month ago, I wrote a post about how making a career in music is difficult to do. Yeah, I meant it.

The biggest difficulty has always been in the tense balance between doing what you love and making enough money to live on. “Money: it’s just green paper,” a good friend of mine often says. And, for me, needing that green paper has led me to get a part-time job at a computer company in Naperville, IL. It’s a great job – honestly – with a great staff and boss. It’s just not music, though.

Okay. Enough about that. You all just needed a little background before I went off on the real point of this post:

As many days as I work in Naperville are (almost) as many days that I ride my bicycle. Yes, to and from work, 12 miles, round trip, on the road (half of my route doesn’t have sidewalks, and the half that does is completely unsafe to use – due to traffic patterns, layout of the sidewalk, other pedestrians, etc.). Looking for a complete range of bicycles? For Ecosmo Bikes’ complete range of ladies bikes, just click here, you will find the most comfortable bikes.

You should also know that Megan works in the exact opposite direction of where I work, and she works twenty minutes away from our apartment (30 from where I work), so she takes the car. By me riding, we save around $200 in gas – every month.

So. I just wanted to say that I’m getting sick of riding my bike to work. But I’m not sick enough to waste $200 a month in gas. Plus, it’s healthier for me and the environment.