If Marathoners Finish They Win.

Life Is A Positive-sum Game. Everyone From The Gold Medallist To The Last Finisher Can Rejoice In A Personal Victory.

It's Very Hard In The Beginning To Understand That The Whole Idea Is Not To Beat The Other Runners. Eventually You Learn That The Competition Is Against The Little Voice Inside You That Wants You To Quit.

We May Think There Is Willpower Involved, But More Likely... Change Is Due To Want Power. Wanting The New Addiction More Than The Old One. Wanting The New Me In Preference To The Person I Am Now.

There Are Those Of Us Who Are Always About To Live. We Are Waiting Until Things Change, Until There Is More Time, Until We Are Less Tired, Until We Get A Promotion, Until We Settle Down / Until, Until, Until. It Always Seems As If There Is Some Major Event That Must Occur In Our Lives Before We Begin Living.

On The Roads, I Can See Truth Revealed Whole Without Thought Or Reason. There I Experience The Sudden Understanding That Comes Unasked, Unbidden. I Simply Rest, Rest Within Myself, Rest Within The Pure Rhythm Of My Running. And I Wait.