10 Days to Race, Last Day to Fundraise
Oh alright, I haven’t trained much since week 8.
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Oh alright, I haven’t trained much since week 8.
You’d think less time in fundraising = more time in training. The opposite is true. May be this speaks of the general human problem (mine for one!), you perform better when watched, no?
Commemoration of past events is understandable, but insistence on tradition based on myth is baffling,
‘If I’m too comfortable, may be I haven’t stretched myself enough.’
.. meditation is in being even more present, not absent. It is in more thinking and not blanking out thoughts. It is gaining peace not by not thinking, but by thinking rightly. It results in fullness and not emptiness of the mind.
.. we don’t hope in this world, instead in the inheritance that’s been reserved for us, which – unlike anything even the best thing in life can offer – will never change, decay, it’s secure, forever. In fact, the more and worse the trial we face,
Who had expected to go through all they have? Although we all know broken relationships, illness, and even bereavement happen to everyone, we still don’t expect it to happen to us.
Wish it every year if you’d like, but what do we know for certain? You wait long long. For such things simply don’t exist. It doesn’t take long for the mood to settle back into everyday reality – by end of the week?
Does it mean one big happy family? Not really. Just like any biological family, it is by no means perfect. Like everywhere else in the world, full of flawed people who are often self-centred. It is good we’re not kept together because we’re happy with one another (if it is, then it won’t last very long, would it?), but by something that runs much deeper and stronger.