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It is a beautiful summer day, the year 1998, when my life is about to change forever. It happened! One of my dreams is about to come true. This day is the day that I will finally learn how to ride a bike. We are all ready for this big step of mine, see I come from a family of bikers which means there is a lot of rivalry between the cousins, and it is also a big deal, therefore it was almost sure that this day would eventually come as soon as possible. Helmet, check, gloves, check, boots, check, everything is all set.

Dad is telling me that it is time to go but I don’t think I’m ready yet but well let’s give it a try and see how this makes me feel. I just need to go ahead and load everything in the trailer and we can go and try out this new ride.

Now we are finally on our way to the track, it’s been quite long right now, but it’s ok! I can wait. I’m just really anxious to be there and I know we are going to arrive in any minute. See I told you! We are already here. Time to rock and roll baby! But wait how I know I will be good at this, I mean I must be, my dad is and my brother is too, therefore I must be really good at this. But what if I’m not? Oh my God! This is going to be quite interesting. Ok so dad told me that I have to step on this thing right here and hold this other thing right there on the left side, also we have the gears on my left foot and the back break on the right foot and the front brake on my right hand. This is more difficult than I expected, the bike is quite heavy too. I don’t know if I’m going to be able to do this anymore. Stop pushing me dad I’m coming, it’s just hard to learn and I don’t want to fall. Alright that’s a lap, let’s go for another one! Easy the second lap but you know what this is not as funny as I thought, I don’t want to do it anymore. Now my dad is sad and it’s all my fault, after telling him that I didn’t want to ride he was heartbroken, his little boy is not going to be part of the family tradition as everybody is.

Well at least now I know that I don’t like riding well not for now maybe some years later I can finally get back into that world and enjoy as my father says he does when he rides. And I can now try something that I really love, football. This is how my football career is going to start. This is going to be amazing.