* A run *The weather is picking up again and hopefully the good vibe will last for a while.
The last few weeks / months haven’t been easy on the body or the mind. It happens,
"We are gathered here today
To get through this thing called "life".... Prince
Too many funerals and not enough celebrations. Hearing of illnesses and injuries to friends. Lots of bad news on the TV and radio. Doom scrolling on the internet.
When you enter a race online and have to scroll down a long way to find your birth year.. Jaysus 😃
The one saving grace through it all has been a run.
The appreciation that I can run, when so many others that want to be active cannot do it.
On my own, a slow run and sorting the head out in a quiet place free from distractions where I can think.
Meeting someone to run and chat with, where there is a welcome ear and support while we cover the miles.
Going to a race and meeting everyone for smiles, hugs, laughs and yes we run a bit. The social bit is priceless.
Look at your watch when you finish a race and be happy that you and your watch got to the end line whatever the time is. It is an affirmation that you are alive.
The cuppa after a run.
The feeling afterwards when you are showered and dressed, where you feel you ran some of the bad stuff out and you have a little pep in your step.
We all have choices in our lives.
Be positive or be negative.
Some use the cliché glass half full or half empty. I like half full after I have drank the top half of a nice beer and half of it it still left…. but not for long and fill it again.
Live to the full each day or barely exist.
Be a support for others and know that everyone has some issue that they need help with.
'we give each other a smile with a future in it' John Donne
I won’t get religious or spiritual or predictions of an after life. I can’t predict tomorrow why would I be pontificating?
Enjoy your best life and in the absence of professional and scientific authority just listen to an aging slogger who has seen life.
But go for a run.
#pwr
