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It all started in 2005.
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Until then, I was working in marketing,
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for an Internet company.
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In 2005 though,
after a few hesitations,
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I have decided to take some
evening mechanics classes.
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Few years later, I meet Hugo,
at this exact place,
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but it was looking totally different,
it was totally empty.
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Quickly, we started being friends and...
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…spending time together,
evenings and week-ends.
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We both decided
to quit our respective job
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to do what we wanted to do,
and follow our passion.
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I come from a relatively
upper-medium class family,
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with parents being
pretty open-minded,
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so they were willing to
accept many type of things,
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but truth is mechanics
was totally unexpected.
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They did not understand
how I could choose mechanics.
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For them, it was an execution job,
in an assembly-line type of process,
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And as a very repetitive exercice.
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Which I can understand,
because there is a part of thruth.
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That was their conception of Mechanics,
so it hasn't been easy to make them accept it.
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People were saying :
"Are you sure of your life choice ?"
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"You really want to live from bike custom making ?"
"It doesn't seem odd to you ?"
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And we were believing in it,
because we had to do it no matter what,
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to have no regrets.
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I have always been told,
if you don't work at school,
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you will end up on the
garage way, as a mechanics.
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I am not inventing it,
it's a real expression still in use nowadays.
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I never had to prove to anybody
that it was my passion.
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It was a passion for myself,
so I never tried to convince my parents.
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So for a little while,
even though it wasn't a source of tension...
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...I did my thing, not secretively,
but I did it on my own.
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I didn't really share it,
because I had nobody to share it with.
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I remember talking to my boss,
who was German,
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at the time I was still working
in the Internet Business,
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to explain him that by now
I will have to quit work earlier,
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so that from Monday to Friday, I could
take mechanics classes in the evening.
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I had all my speech prepared,
because I thought
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"How can I explain I obtained
a Master Degree
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and go back to school to learn
using your hands ?"
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The beauty of it is that
he instantly understood,
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But I remember he warned me
to not talk about it to other people.
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I understood his advice months later
when they heard about it within the company
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what I was doing
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Some people came to me asking :
"Why are you doing Mechanics ?"
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What does it bring to you ?"
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I didn't know what to
tell them at this time.
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Since my childhood,
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I’ve always been interested
in various things,
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things which have a shape.
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When I was a child,
I was crazy about cars.
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I would cut out car’s
advertisements in newspapers,
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to make a scrapbook.
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Later on, I was absorbed by insects.
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I looked at a picture book of scarabs,
beetles and so on, all day long.
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Then when I was at primary school, I was
obsessed with monsters in Science Fiction.
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I invented a new monster
and drew pictures of it.
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I looked up all the
monsters on TV programs.
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I’ve always been obsessed with something.
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How can I say?
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At that time I was not sure
about my career plan.
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If I should continue
studying entomology,
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which I was majoring
at the university, or not...
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I couldn’t forget bikes
I was working on as a hobby.
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It didn’t take long until I settled
bikes in the center of my life.
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And not only..
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..as a hobby.
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This is how it all began.
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When I was young,
I just liked to ride a bike,
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because it was just cool and exciting.
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No other reason.
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For about the last 10 years,
since many people ask me why I like bikes,
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I started to think about it.
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I guess I’m attracted
by the vulnerability
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and the thrill of bikes.
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There are no other vehicles which
haven’t been changed at all like bikes.
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You just need your brain and riding
techniques to protect yourself.
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This is the point why I think bikes are
as primitive tool as knives or fire.
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That attracts me a lot.
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Riders today and riders 100 years
ago are attracted by bikes
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for the same reason.
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Which is the vulnerability
that bikes essentially have.
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And riding bikes arouses
a sense of rivalry.
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Before then, when I was looking
at my coworkers and myself,
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I had the feeling to fill my day with void,
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I still felt I was drawn in
the middle of a mass of people,
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doing something intengible
even incoherent sometimes.
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Now we are only two, we can manage the
project from the beginning to the very end.
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And today, I like to claim the fact that
I’m a white collar who turned into a blue collar, proudly.
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Because I am really proud of
myself for doing what I do.
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I didn’t work all by
myself at the beginning.
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I used to work in a group.
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With many other workers.
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At that time,
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I drew a design of a bike
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and gave the others instructions
to bring it into shape.
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After I started my own business,
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I realized that what I really wanted…
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…was not to instruct the others...
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but to cast my idea
into shape all by myself.
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It was important for me
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to complete the whole process
all by myself.
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There are two perspectives
in customizing bikes.
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One is the technical aspect as a craftsmen,
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for example fixing the engine,
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so that it works precisely.
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or fixing the cornering,
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so that it runs straight.
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On the other hand,
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artistic performance is also required.
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My parents are already dead.
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They both were calligraphers
and poets writing Tanka.
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Calligraphy is genuinely an art,
not supposed to be functional.
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It’s completely different
from producing a bike.
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It will be quite weird if you
produce a bike as an art.
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As I said before, it’s not good
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if the artistic perspective is stronger
than the technical one and vice versa.
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You cannot pursuit only the
mechanical competency,
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neither only the artistic competency,
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for example bending some parts in
an artistic way to spoil its function.
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The bike which is just beautiful,
and will never be functional,
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doesn’t attract me at all.
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In that sense..
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I think it is important
to keep the balance.
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Calligraphy is different from producing bikes
because it mainly requires beauty.
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Painters express their
feelings in their paints,
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and sculptors in their sculptures.
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Although the bike is
a functional machine,
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I want to express myself in the bike.
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The bikes which I produce
should be a part of myself.
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That’s why I have to improve my inner-self
to produce better bikes.
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What got me involved into
motorcycle is travelling.
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That is the genuine reason
why I started riding.
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I felt I was in control.
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A car feels too big,
and you can get stuck.
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To me, a bike
meant freedom.
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I felt autonomous, I really
feel autonomous on a bike.
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I can fix it,
I can just go,
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I can duck out the traffic,
I can go wherever I want
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I can steer around
and take a closed road.
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The idea was to go.
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The point of motorcycling
was to leave…
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...To hit the road.
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And that’s it, I told myself,
let’s pursue, we can do it.
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I knew that mechanically
speaking, we could go on,
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not until the end,
but continue for a bit.
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- We had no idea!
We had no idea.
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And that’s for me a journey.
You don’t know what’s going to happen to you.
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- You don’t know!
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While riding a modern 1200GS,
you know what’s coming next,
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but not with an old bike.
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And you have no idea who you’re going to meet,
where you’re going to land..
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- You don’t know if you’re going to make it.
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Neither when you’ll get there.
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When I live for a trip, we’ll
see how that works out.
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- I went for a trip
once with Hugo
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Yes.
- No, but let me explain.
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We rode from Paris to Tour,
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it took us 12 hours,
there is only 155 miles..
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But we had so much fun.
- But it was one of the best trip I had.
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And I perfectly remember the teacher tells me:
"If you kick it now, it will run"
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So he puts some start
pilote in the carburetor,
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I kick it 2 or 3 times,
and it starts.
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I remember that I call one
of my best friend, and my dad,
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on both hands
I end up on a voicemail,
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and the only message I leave
is the noise of full gas
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while holding the phone at the
rear of the exhaust pipe.
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How dumb is that ?
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But I had nothing else to say at this moment,
the bike was talking for myself.
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That's my favorite memories.
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Recently I’m aware of the flow.
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It can be replaced with
continuity or harmony.
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When I design a bike
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I’m aware of the flow of the bike,
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from the front to the tail,
it has to be one continuing line.
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The flow between
a bike and the scenery,
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has to suit in the scenery.
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I realized that everything has a flow.
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When I ride my bike in
Bonneville for example,
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I try to present it
as cool as possible.
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I mean the flow of producing
bikes won’t finish
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until a person rides it
in the most suitable location.
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My current theme is to align
the flow until its last.
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My whole life is also a part of this flow.
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In the job and in my free time,
I’m always aware of the flow.
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I guess I am happy.
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Simply because I can earn
money doing what I like.
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Spending money on my favourite things.
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For me it is quite simple but important.
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I’m happy because I’ve always
been like this so far.
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Although I don’t have
a luxurious house with a pool,
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not even a car with air-conditioner,
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nor a big TV,
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I can do what I want when I want.
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I can come to Bonneville,
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I can run the canyon in the daytime...
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...and work at night,
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I can sleep when I want.
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I can do what I want when I want.
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That is the happiest thing I could imagine.16047
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