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)
danialmazalan@gmail.com
