No Training Wheels

Today the training wheels comes off my bike & my big brother wheel take them off because the screws are too tight. As he starts wrenching away he had some things to say. Rule one learn your balance & you may fall but keep trying til you get it. Rule two you supposed to have a helmet but you don’t have one so that mean be careful and ride with sense. Rule three don’t cross the street because you not old enough plus it’s your first day without training wheels. After that his rules was tacit & he took off like he had something better to do. So there I was with my bike without no training wheels, “let’s ride”. I was practicing & gaining experience for about 45 minutes on my dead end street. Later their was two bother who was more like teenagers on their bikes as well. They where much more experience then me they rode them bikes like experts I even watch & learned small details I used as visual tips. I even tried to ride along them as they cross the street back & forth, but I will stop every time I got to the street. The fun got normal for me to ride along them & stop at street as they rode straight thru the stop sign every time. It got so normal that the little brother was following his big brother so much on them bikes over & over again. “I think they forgot a rule”. The little brother was hit by a car as his big brother across the streets after leading the joy ride the whole time. I was stunned my first day without training wheels, I was looking on as this young man breathe was leaving his body from impact of the car accident. He die right there as I stood at the stop sign looking at his brother crying knowing he got to tell his mother the news. My brother runs up behind me sad but happy it wasn’t me but I told him I listened to rule three. He hugged me & we walked the bicycle back home as the rescue & ambulance was pulling up. My first day with no training wheels was a life experience. Tell yourself what you learned from this and relate it to your life or situation & don’t forget your first day without your training wheels.