You have to be odd to be number one.
— Dr. Seuss
Choose an odd number. 😅
85. 58. 9700.
The countries that Veena Sehgal has travelled in her years on the planet can perhaps be best described as a tapestry beneath her wheels — 85, to be sure. For Veena has this fanatical memory.
For the faint of heart, it can be even disconcerting.
The numbers themselves, for you need time to achieve each one of them. And the memory to remember and recount, for how methodical one needs to be to do that, I wonder!
The number of places that you travel to needs a lifetime. Your age too, needs a lifetime. Cycling 9700 kms a year — Maybe, that too.
But there are other numbers. And so, I asked Veena —
Where does it all come from?
Veena —
I don't know. Sometimes I think about it, that this pulls me so much. I think it's a kind of meditation for me. If you ask me to sit quietly in a room and try and meditate, I can't do it.
But maybe this is what meditation is for me.
I cycle too.
Join me and Veena as we ride together with the joys of the wind in our hair.
(Yes, yes, I know.)
Veena has been there, and done it too like all of us.
But now, she is more than all of that an inspiration for me and the rest of us who want to put some wheels below our feet. Write to her and ask her how to do it, as I did on Salil today.
Cycling solo 9700 km/year — Veena and her fanatical devotion to the wheels under her feet.