Yesterday, I backed my ute out of the driveway and crashed into my neighbour’s parked car.

I missed out on my training sessions on Tuesday and Thursday morning because of the rain and I am thinking that maybe, I am going backwards in my race fitness.

They turned the clock forward last weekend for daylight saving and they will turn it back after this summer is finished.

Sometimes, my back account goes backwards and empties itself out.

I see all the glossy advertisements for beauty treatments and anti-aging lotions that try to reverse the process of losing our youthful looks. It is a huge industry that stalks our vanity.

Of course, there are the politicians who go back on their word, sales people who run away from you after they have made the sale, partners who reverse their wedding vows, football teams in reputation control, celebrities fading into unknowns and dieters getting fatter.

But bicycles do not have a reverse gear and my fitness base never goes backwards. Human beings are built to walk forward and the backwards lope is an unnatural movement.

They can turn the clock back but time never goes backwards

There will always be enough money available to do what needs to be done – independent of what the bank account does. The money trail will always move forward. Money is always made and never lost – only spent.

We stress about getting old and losing our youth. Yet, none of us would give away our store of life experiences in exchange for a young clueless body. We marvel at huge old trees that are centuries old and forget that the lines on our faces testify to the depth of experience within.

Life is a forward motion. And that is all we need to bother with in our lives. The things that can go backward should be permitted to just fade away – as they are meant to do.