You Never Forget How to Ride a Bike, but You Have to Forget How to Walk, by Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

You Never Forget How to Ride a Bike, but You Have to Forget How to Walk

Learning how to walk

is learning how to fall forward

while remembering to catch yourself

again and again

Walking is the illusion

afforded by forgetting

everything you remembered

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