i love to ride my bike, ride daily all kinds of weather and love it, know my way around the city well and i feel like i'm pretty fast (for 36 lookin at 37 in a few weeks), plus i'm strong and have stamina, and i feel like i could maintain, but…

i don't want to be a messenger.

reasons:
i love what i do. i'm an art director and an editor and that **** is fascinating to me. there's a diversity to it and a fullness and i don't see the same thing elsewhere. i'm not sitting in some cubicle mad at it.

i like to ride. would i like it as much if i had to? dunno - haven't been there, but seems to me like if riding my bike were my job rather than my hobby (a remedy to work related bs, not a cause of it) well maybe i wouldn't feel the same. maybe i would. iunno - can't call that, but i'm glad i get to ride simply for pleasure every day.

i need the dollars and the insurance and the stability of this type of job. i'm getting older, have obligations and responsibilities, and i'm also grudgingly coming to accept that i'm neither immortal nor invulnerable. boring, yeah, but the sad truth.

nyc taxis can kiss my a$s, period.

still and all, respect due to all people putting it on the line to make deliveries. me, at my age, where i'm at in my life, i'll stay paying messengers and keeping em in work, not being one.