Title
Document Type
Narrative Essay
Publication Date
1994
Excerpt
Like almost every other child in my neighborhood, learning how to ride a bicycle was a very important part of growing up for me. Along with most children, I always wanted to be with the older kids or do what they were doing. Learning how to ride a bicycle was one of the major accomplishments on the path to becoming one of the big kids. When I was in the first grade, I was fascinated with bicycles. It was almost painful to watch the older kids ride their bikes to school and around the neighborhood. Every weekday I had to suffer walking to school while the big kids rode their dirt bikes past me. They looked so happy riding their bikes. Some of the worst times had to be when I would be walking home from school and the big kids would race past me. I was jealous that they could get home in almost no time while it took me almost fifteen minutes. It was obvious that they knew how much the little kids wanted to be like them. They would laugh when they would pass by the little kids. It was during these times that I both hated and envied the big kids. It seemed that they got to do everything that I wanted but was not allowed to do. Mainly they got to ride a bicycle everywhere. I wanted to learn to ride a bike so much that it was the only thing that I could think about for months.
Recommended Citation
Kreeger, David, "Riding a Bicycle (1994)" (1994). The Valpo Core Reader. 273.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/273