I have noticed since taking up unicycling that some of my priorities have changed. For instance, what I think is a good thing in people.
Yesterday I was uni’ing along the prom. I had stopped for a bottom rest & was considering re-mounting. 3 young people, around aged 17 came along, clearly buzzing from some kind of substance. As they walked one of them talked about his drug dealing. I was a bit apprehensive about freemounting in front of them, thinking they would give me a hard time. Instead they went “Wow”, “cool” and that kind of thing and felt a warm glow.
I was thinking that they were nice people after all. Then it struck me, drug dealers, nice people, just because they hadn’t given me a hard time about my unicycle. I need to stay in more!
Cathy
Cathy,
I was once desperately in love with a Republican so much so that I relocated because of her. Given the right circumstances up can always be made to seem down. 
You mentioned before that you learned to unicycle in order to impress a girl. Same one?
Cathy, there are a lot of bad people who do drugs. There are also a lot of bad people who don’t do drugs. I have learned never to assume that someone is weird or evil just because their lifestyle is different than mine.
No, I made that scenario up as I often do now in the “What got you started?” threads that pop up anew every couple of months. I’m hoping that if I make up enough fictions, that I’ll be able to forget the actual truth about how I got started and make things up each time that I actually believe.
Jethro, you said in the "who would you ride with " thread that we were very different. I think probably you’re wrong about that. 
priorities
I know it, too!
I used to begrudgingly accompamy my son, taking some scientific article or research paper to the playground (where there happens to be a large expanse of un interrupted black-top pavement). Now I pester him,
“Let’s go! I want to ride!”
It’s been great helping me loosen up. I do love getting the unpredictable responses from folks that I pass, too!
I guess what really makes me wonder is those people who give no reaction at all! I know I’m always smiling.
Blake
equally, there are a lot of good people who don’t do drugs and a lot of good people who do drugs
That’s what I was thinking.
Nice one, Gild!
T.
Or you could say that there is some good in most people if you look hard enough. I know.
So maybe it means that i’m just less judgemental. I certainly measure people by different standards when I’m rididng my uni.
Cathy