Friday, December 30, 2016

festive 500

                                                              FESTIVE 500
There is a boy that was born with a normal physical condition, sadly he was diagnosed with a disease that really haunted his life until the moment this story was written. The disease that he had is something similar to a cancer  disease , heart attack or any bad disease that have in this world. The perception of people make this disease look very negative and the people with this problem look like a living dead body that try to finish their life as soon as possible. This disease also is the major killer among the people nowadays. That boy was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder disease. For people that have this problem their life is so confusing and painful. Suicide attempt is like their best friend. They just do not know what is the thing they do, when they are happy, the happiness that run inside their body is like a water flow in the river, in just a split of second ,that hapiness can switch to sad mode. They will lock themselves inside a dark room and stay inside there for so long. Darkness is happiness for this people ,and that darkness will lead to negative consequences.

1 day when this boy walked at his college ,his friend call him “Hey D ,come here bro, lets join us for a ride, we want to ride to Sungai Wang” He is so confuse ,because  for him, sleeping at his room and lock himself inside the dark room is the best thing to do, he do not know what will happen to him if he took that bicycle .After thinking for several minutes, he decided to join the boys for a ride. The moment he took and ride the bicycle, that is the turning point of his life. He start to feel the sadness blown away with the wind that pass through his body. When the air hit his face, that is the calmness moment of his life and he do not know how to describe the happy things that just happened to him. He is so excited about that thing and went his psychiatrist and tell his DR about the cycling things. Suprisingly his DR also is a cyclist. The DR  decided not to give him medicine and ask him to ride a bicycle. Day by day,month by month ,year by year .D can control his Bipolar Disorder problem without taking any medicine .He just ride and ride .As we know the next stage of Bipolar Disorder is Schizophrenia.Since D cycling regularly now,he just switch himself to a normal person

This is year is the  first year D join this Rapha festive 500. Rapha actually put a small catalyst to D spirit for him to push himself to finish this challenge . For Bipolar Disorder people, feeling down and sadness is something you cannot take away. But cycling can control that problem. Because when you ride you will feel happy and calm. First day he managed to do 100 km. Second day the pain strike his head badly, he felt  sad suddenly, although he is down, he still managed to clock in 40km on that day.3rd day he managed to ride 51.2km in the morning and 40.3km on the evening side.4th day the sadness come again, but he push himself to get 52km on that day. On the 5th day he push himself to ride 70.3km on the morning side and 41.5km at the evening side. The spirit is increasing vigorously after that ride. On the 6th day he want to ride on the morning side but a heavy thunderstorm stop his move. D stay positive and do a short ride that evening and clock in 25.6km . He know on the 7th day he need to finish this 500km ride .His feelings are mixing up with give up and quit feelings, after he know he have 74km to go.

74km to go, he need to stay positive, and he ride the last day with style,43km ride in the morning and 31.7km on the evening side. The moment he hit the 500km mark, he shout so loud, until the birds around there flew away. Festive 500 is the event that help so many cyclist with different background to push themself to the limit that is beyond expectation. The D boy inside this story is actually a writer that writing this story. I managed to fight my problem and live normally like a normal people. Cycling  really help to cure my problem. Not to forget Festive 500 is like a teacher that taught me to push yourself till the end and never give up.Hope rapha can do a ride to fight this mental disease.Because cycling is the best medicine to this problem.


LOVE

(D)

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