Feel free

Down the road i like to look back and say that was a great fight with the limitations that i was served with. Not just to run in the evenings for exercises have a dream of going to the olympics. The reality chances scale might say 100000:1 chance but hey why not try.

Training is never easy. Allocating time to a passion is not easy. The world put lots of demands on the shoulder. Be successful in career, build meaningful relationships, be healthy, financial security and most of all be happy. I dont know whether i missed any other important things but no doubt they all are very important depending on the personal needs.

Hard work comes at a price. The price is time and energy. I like to use my running time to think and absorb all thoughts. I used to listed to music when i run. Back then if i dont run without music used to get wired ideas. Such as out of all the people i see who is going to die first or if a hippo and a polar bear mate what their cubs would be like and all that jazz. Not all the time but sometimes. Now no music.

But now after years of being out there exercising among people, now i use my running time as mediation and work. My work is centered around computer programming. So algorithms go left right and center.

Then again sometimes mind just goes in to absolute nothingness. Just think about nothing. Just flowing. Running is freedom. Feel free.

Getting high

If one is really in to running, there is a good chance of going complete nuts if that one stops running. Why; it is addictive. It becomes part of you.

Some run to get high. High as in "feel like flying". This my friend is getting high legally. I used to get it but sadly dont get that any more, as i guess i run too much to think about getting high from the runners high and don't like feeling funny.

Running can become yet another method of chasing a high. The good thing is feel really good after a run. Personally never liked artificial highers, but most of my friends did around me. Its all good. I hear that "Drugs are taken by nice people". May be that is what the voices in the head say. Or 'drugs are starting to work"!

Then again if you are naturally high why bother. My excuse for not joining was saying "when i was a child i was dropped head first to a stash of pot"

Apparently runners high is to do with hormones. If the body is working at its max, it relives the pain through giving back some back to itself some happy hormones to forget the pain. Like "forget bout it" I read that this is what some of the party drugs do to people. It artificially gives that feeling. But what it really gives is permanent brain damage.

When you see a lone runner smiling away for no reason, you know the truth now.

So why are we talking about getting high and all that. Why not. Sometimes such as pressures in life can makes things look harder than actually what they are. So when feeling tired or feel the need of some sort of self healing or time to think time. I reckon nothing does for me than a run. It is a pure meditation. Go in to a trance mode.

That is when you are flying. Serendipity is Life.