#sublimesunday ? #sublimeweekend ? "BOTH" is alway the right choice!

I know it's monday already in everyplace in the world, but lets pretend it's still sunday and I'll tell you why I couldn't post this yesterday.

My weekend always starts with a hard decision, this time I had to choose between my real life and my cyber one. I had to choose between going back to training and starting by a jogging session with my friend Omar on saturday morning or attend the All Play Friday Show by @topkpop. I chose to do both, I think it's in my personnality to want to have all and do all and never miss anything in this short life.

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So I had to sleep early to have few hours of rest and wake up at 2AM for the show, by early I mean the normal bed time in Tunisia. I have this super power that I'm really grateful for which is my perfect sleep habit. I sleep about few minutes after I decide to, I never have to try hard, maybe because I'm always tired and sleepless, I don't know. But that was the part that can be explained. What can't be explained about my sleep habit is that, even if I forget to set my alarm, I always wake up at the exact time I want.

Manytimes I sleep two or three hours before the next day has to be started. My last thought is usually "Ok I'll have three hours of sleep this night, it should be enough!" and, most of the time, the next thing I can remember is "Wow my phone's battery was dead all night, I'm glad I woke up 5 minutes before the alarm that was never going to happen."

(sorry for the side talk, I'll warn you next time)

Anyway, I didn't miss the show, and I won one STEEM in the trivia, as usual! 😎 then I kept wandering around in discord and steemit before I remembered that I have to get few more hours of sleep if I don't want to embarrase myself in the jogging. Again, I slept very fast and woke up in the perfect time. Except that my friend told me that he went to a camping in the last minute and he didn't have the time to tell me about it, that's how crazy my friends are!

Another side talk

Now I'm so glad Omar' the one in the middle, didn't make it because everytime I run with him, one of us gets really embarrased. I brought him with me to an 18km marathon back when I was regularely training Karate, that's when this photo was taken. 18km were too little for a marathon, but the mountain we had to go through made it even harder then the normal 25km. Omar couldn't keep up with me so I left him behind and I earned my place in the top 10 while he didn't make it to the top 300 out of 2000 runners or so.

I didn't make fun of him of course but he decided and promised he will have his revenge. Lucky him, I stopped Karate few months later and he bought a bike and started running and biking regularly. Two years later, I wanted to slowly get my health back. I made the worst mistake of my life when I called Omar and asked him to take me with him for his next run.

He proposed a long circuit, about 20km long. I know it sounds so much for "slowly getting my health back" but at that moment I thought "If Omar can do it, I can do it" 😅 so I accepted.

The first 3km I didn't feel anything and I was enjoying the run, 3 more kilometers and the pain started. I kept convincing my every muscle that we're just getting started and they have to be patient. I could feel the propaganda my brain was processing like a hormone or some kind of a relaxing chemical drug spreading in my body and terminating all the pain everytime I do that. But the pain alway finds its way bak.

By the tenth kilometer, I ran out of that relaxing drug, or maybe the pain was so powerful and true that it overcame the propaganda. Now I have to endure the pain and keep running, I just reached half the distance so I tried to convinve my self that "if I did it once I can do it again, All I have to do is repeat what I just did". Of course that didn't make sence to my screaming tortured muscles but stopping was not an option because the closest town was six kilometers away. What kept me going at that point was a video I watched earlier that day about a little boy struggling to win a rope game. I was like "He was in pain and he didn't stop, so can I"

That kept me three more km and then my legs started disobeing me. I had to stop running and start again several times. It felt like running on broken glass with bare feet, every step I took was an impossible mission itself. I guess what I was suffering was much more than having to pull a rope and never let go of it. Omar noticed what I was going through so he said" lets have a rest and do some stretching and then we can start again". Once I stopped I noticed that even walking wasn't easy in that condition so we never started running again that day.

That was one of the many times when I could litterally push myself way beyond the limit. I guess that's the only way you would know what you're really capable of and I think 13km was not bad at all for a start.

Back to my #Sublimeweekend

Saturday morning, my friend is not going for the jogging, I had another decision to make. Stay in my hometown and go for a run anyway or go to Tunis and meet my english speaking friends in Amideast. Again I chose both. My plan B for the jogging was my sister, but while I was having breakfast, my father told me that he needs me in the farm with him. Did I have to choose between the jogging and going to the farm? Of course no! I chose both. I took my sister and we ran to the farm where I did some Karate training and I did the Wushu challenge that @janicehung was hosting to come up with this result Then my father came and I helped him do what needed to be done and went home.

I had a quick shower and went to Tunis. By the time I walked in to Amideast, there was a theater club happening and they were just doing a warm up. The exercise was something like a #freewrite. You get a prompt, you get ten seconds to think and then thirty seconds to talk out loud, in english. My prompt was "day or night?" and of course my answer was "Both!" Then we did a short sketch that I helped writing the scenario and I played a role in it.

Then there was a debate club. This time we didn't debate, we just watched a movie about debating it's called "The great debaters". If you never watched it, I highly suggest that you do. It was the kind of movies that you don't usually choose to watch if you see it online but once someone "forces" you to watch it, it would change the way you see the world.

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That saturday evening in tunis ended really late and I almost missed the last bus to my hometown because of the trivia that was super fun and that I didn't win 😅. By the time I got home I could barely post my #wushuchallenge post, spend some time in discord and sleep.

Now to the #sublimesunday

On sunday I had two important meeting with NGO's in different regions of Tunisia. I asked one of my friends to replace me in one of them and I traveled to Sousse for the other. I didn't take any photos in Sousse so if you want to see how beautiful that city is, you'll have to google image it.

It was a long day but I came home in the perfect timing for #thealliance weekly voice meeting. I told you I want have everything and do everything. Then I had to teach one of my cousins some electrics as I promised because he has an exam coming soon. And answer my comments on steemit and have the comment fight with my twin @saffisara that posted our Twin Story at that time. That's why I couldn't post my #sublimesunday last night, it would've been too much multitasking and my cousin would've been the victim if I did.

Did it sound sublime to you? Even a little? well it did to mee! 😎

@omra-sky , by the way the squirrels kept following me all along because I didn't write the weekend #freewrite 🙄. I think they lost few kilograms in these last two days.

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