As I have run over the past month, I have noticed an increase in the numbers of runners I see out there at 5:00am (even earlier, but there are fewer). In noticing this increase, I have been thinking about the weather and how it is always a topic that you hear about each day. Perhaps it is because it is one thing that we all have in common, weather! I hear people complaining in winter of the cold, the snow, pleading for spring to come. Then, when spring comes, those same people complain of too much rain, when will we see the sun and leaves on the trees. The leaves come and there are complaints of pollen, and when will it get warm enough for summer clothes? I am sure as summer arrives, the complaint will be that it is too hot. This brings to mind the thought of whatever we want, though it may finally come, it never seems to be enough... or is it? Let me apply this to running to explain my stance on the topic.
My foot has healed fine and I have successfully run over a month now pain free. Looking at this fact over the many years I have run, I can look at it from different angles. I could whine that after a number of injuries, I finally have figured out that I just can't run every day anymore without getting injured. I also could relish in the fact that I am able to run every other day. I get to look forward to something I love doing. I get to enjoy it one day and live the next in anxious, excited anticipation of what is to come. I choose the latter. I choose to be happy with what I have be blessed with. What good would it do me to focus on the fact that I don't get to run every day anymore? Does that type of attitude somehow enhance my situation? No, not at all. I can however, enhance it by jumping in wholeheartedly into each day and being thankful that I still get to run! I can do it, so I will, every chance I get! I for one, enjoy the changing of the seasons. Right now, I get to awaken to the first light, I can run to the lake and watch the sun rise over the horizon. What a great way to begin my day. Appreciate what you have and you will be able to choose happiness too! I bet those other runners out there with me have found that out too.
