Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle awakens. He has only one thought on his mind: To be able to run faster than the fastest lion. If he cannot, then he will be eaten.
Every morning in Africa a lion awakens. He has only one thought on his mind: To be able to run faster than the slowest gazelle. If he cannot, he will die of hunger.
Whether you choose to be a gazelle or a lion is of no consequence. It is enough to know that with the rising of the sun, you must run. And you must run faster than you did yesterday or you will die. This is the race of life.
- African Proverb
unlike very many things in life, running is very simple.
anyone can run. running has a beginning, and running has an end. running takes every bit of you. the more you run the better you get. running will make you happpy and sweaty. if you do not run, you will be punished when you do start again. the longer you stop, the harsher the punishment.
running will teach you about yourself. running will change you. running will make you a better person. not a good person, just better. and i guess that's good enough for me.
+ fictions&fires
9:50 PM
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plangere, latin: to strike, or to lament.
in the depth of winter i finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
--albert camus
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to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
-- ee cummings
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