Life lessons through running || 1 episode #whatilearnedwhilerunning

Hi Steemers,

I never mentioned this before but, most of my blog posts and videos are born when I go out on my morning run. Ideas start flowing and I'm the observer of them. While running I have had from business ideas to deep philosophical thoughts about life.

Running is been my love since seventeen years ago, though there is this weird relationship between me and running, a love-hate relationship. I hate it sometimes because it's physically hard, but most of the times I learn to love the discomfort and the mental sanity I gain through it.

But why would I keep on doing something that sounds uncomfortable and to many people terrible? Because running makes me understand life better. As simple as that. Almost everything you can compare to running.

#whatilearnedwhilerunning

For instance yesterday, once I stepped in the park I passed almost every runner, but out of the sudden occurred something that not that often happens: a runner passed me. Of course I speed up. I'm determined to over take him, so I run way faster.

I tried very hard to compite with his tempo. I was blind and controlled by the adrenaline of my competitive mind, but I was completely exhausted after fifteen or twenty seconds. I could not catch up with him. He was way, way too fast.

And there I was, depleted and frustrated. I was really angry while I saw him getting more and more far away and my legs picking up on my previous (normal) tempo. Come on, I always pass everybody at the park!!! -- was my first thought.
But just within seconds I realised the learning... Isn't this the same we do in our regular lives? In our jobs, in our careers, with our friends? We compare ourselves, our journeys to other's!

That man is damn faster than I am, his condition is clearly different than mine. He can run probably under the four minutes per kilometre for many kilometres. The reasons can be several, he probably trains more times per week than I do, or has a more intense training routine, eats differently -- whatever that means -- genetics, etc, etc. There can be so many reasons why he runs so fast and me slower than him.

But why do I compare myself to him? Why do I feel such a bad athlete and a loser while I see him disappearing in the horizon if ultimately I don't go out running because of winning a prize as the fastest of the park but because I love running, period.

How easy it is to lose the vision. How easily can we feel the losers of the story because this or that person is already the owner of his or her own company, or has a better paid job than ours, or already has children, or got married, or is traveling and we're not?

But why would that mean something negative about you and not just simply that you both have lived different lives that lead to different outcomes.

You just can not compite with another person, and if you want to compare yourself to someone that's to your own self, to your own tempos as with running. When you want to run faster you mind your own business, find a training program, train harder, take rests, measure your progress after a while based on what YOU used to perform before. That's the paradox that our minds don't understand sometimes.

Your life is for you to live, to train, to win, to achieve according to your own and unique path. Don't let others and specially yourself fool you. This is your run, your tempo and your goals. Stop looking at others and use that energy to create new things instead of to feel worst about yourself.

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I hope you enjoyed my first post of this series. Leave your comments below, would love to read you!
P.s Photography is made by me, any questions? Let me know!
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Lots of love x
Mindi