Even if nobody asked, even if there were no one to tell about it, if it were just me, on my bike--to do it is better than not to do it. To have done it is better than not to have done it.

I never really did figure out why I did this. And I didn't really learn anything. But maybe it doesn't matter. Whatever it was, maybe it's enough.
     I'm a little bruised, a little battered, but I'm not beaten.