Flying past the skating rink?

Skating rink. Memorial day weekend. Whummmmmp. <--Me. Flying. Landing. Trying. ;-) It was fun though! My first time on the rink with quad skates 'barely' holding me up. To say that I had a swinging time would be a rather punny description. I went rather reluctantly, given my first unfortunate experience with skiing in January. Not wanting to go through Memorial day weekend with a painful and protruding posterior I was understandably unwilling to try my luck at the rink, to begin with. But when your best buddies wanna go, well, you havent much choice then!!
The first lesson was to wear the skates and WALK. Not to glide. But to pick your feet one after the other, and stride forward. And to not hold the wall helming the rink or you do not learn.
Kintan was kind enough to hold my hand and take me around the rink...once... twice. I think that helped me get a feel of how to go about it. So Kintya's lesson (lesson 2, if you may) was to not look at the floor at all. Just look ahead.
Using the first two lessons I waddled around at the periphery of the rink for a few rounds. Then Abhijat cruised alongside to deliver lesson 3. To bend forward. And to swing the arms to balance and navigate. Well, he didnt exactly appreciate the flailing I did and was quite expecting a smooth flowing arm movement... but I was closer to that at the end of the session and hope to do better in the next one. :) (And I could even catch some fleeting utterings of praise from the experts :))
It was very exciting to go at the rhythm of the music. I barely tried, but I am really looking forward to getting more and more of it in the future. I could actually go around for a few rounds without much support and without too much interaction with the ground and my upper body. It wasnt all smooth sailing but the waters would calm down!
Add to that the incentive of burning calories! And voila! You have my interest all perked up. :)

Getting off my train of thought!

I wonder why I've started taking everything with a gallon of salt these days. Every once a while, I try to attribute my (failing) attention span (characterised by it's diminishing amplitude) to various disorders that might be afflicting my otherwise perfect (??) mental faculties.

From Alzheimer's disease to ADD, I've thought about everything. :) That apart, I have even started philosophising less and less. I mean, I am a vagrant wading in my thought pools, with no inclination towards deep diving. And I am taking everything with 200 pinches of salt. I'm becoming less and less fixated on arguing over matters of belief. In fact, I can see myself smugly enjoying a sunny day without even wondering about how unsunny it is an Antarctica... or how I must avoid feeling happy since the rainy days are just a summer away! In fact, my mind trails off and then trails off the off-trail... if you know what I mean... and if not, please dont ask me to explain!

And anyways, am weary of these long winded expressions, so am gonna stop here and not analyse for the next 1 hour. And really, I cant remember why I starting writing this post in the first place!!!