Do you love running?
I love it because it makes me feel free. Free from laziness and weakness.
It empties my mind. If you are a kind of person who thinks too much, you know how good it feels, the silence in your head.
It makes me control my breathing and breathing is life. When I find my rhythm and my speed, I feel like I can run for a long long time.
Running makes me fight with the weak part of me, who wants to stop 10 minutes after I’ve started, telling me “it’s enough, 10 minutes is already too much, you are tired, have a rest”.
This fight is the hardest moment because you have to wait until this voice breaks off, and it is very persistent. But when it finally does, you really feel like a winner.
I hate running because it’s hard, because my legs hurt, because it’s boring.
But I ran yesterday and I’ll run tomorrow. Because running makes me feel what is the second wind. Not only in sports, but in our everyday life. Sometimes we give up too early so we will never know how much better life would be if we didn’t listen to that voice.
I love this quote by William James.
I hope it will inspire you to keep running in everything you do.
