Why are we all running?
Nike Run Club, Strava, new shoes, toe socks, marathons, gels, creatine, smart watches; the inventory of a new middle-aged army.
Are we running so we can be fit to fight?
It seeps deep into your bones. The feeling that something… everything… is just. not. right.
Why are we getting ready to fight?
The sense of impending battle. The fuel that makes us run faster and harder.
What if the real battle is with oneself?
How painfully true that feels.
What if we ran to connect with the ground… the sky… the birds… the trees… with everything around us?
Oh, the joy that fills every corner of my soul and spills from my body as I move as a liberated human!
What if we were all running to move with, not against? To stop the fighting. To stop trying to influence and persuade.
How powerful it could feel to reclaim what was always ours to hold.