Running in town this morning, I passed many familiar places and people. Some people I see quite frequently on my runs and sometimes I wonder what they are thinking when they see me (self-centered I know...). I guess I wonder because when I see people running I always wonder where they have come from, how far they have gone, how hard they are working, why they are running, ect.... I see a person running for a brief moment, that is it, that is all I see. I don't see how much motivation it has taken them to put their running shoes on, I don't see the work they had to put in to get from the couch to running, I don't see the miles they have run, I don't see the pain they may be in, I don't see how tired they may be, I don't see the injuries they may have. Sometimes if you know the person running, you can see some of these things. For instance, when my grandparents and parents came to my cross country races to watch me run they cried sometimes because they knew the effort I had put out for training and could tell I was working really hard. However, they still could not truly know the motivation it took or the pain I was in.
If Life = Running, this is also true. I see people running all around me. I see brief moments of their paths and scenery and how they run, but their is so much I don't see! When they come to a big hill I don't see their inward struggle, when they run past I don't see the path from which they have come, when it is raining I don't see their heart's battle for courage, when they are injured I don't see the true depth of their pain. No matter how much I try to listen, to know, to observe, no one but the runner themselves sees, knows, and feels these things. There is so much people don't see.
Add: 9.5 miles running
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