When i saw this great motivating piece and I couldn't just help but to share, Jenim is not just a friend but someone i draw so much inspiration from, I hope you will start running after reading because I have started already…………..lol
From the moment you are born, you can almost hear the clicker and see the green light saying: GO!!!. How do you run a race you haven't trained for? Or be the lead character in a movie you didn't rehearse for? You don't know the words or the script, just supporting actors. The director? Him you have to search for. Yes, that's what life is...there is no dress rehearsal or school, you learn on the job, you learn to live by living...Now, as in all endeavours, some glide through life gallantly with no show of fear and seemingly no chance of failing. But for a selected few, life could be the scariest thing they've ever known. What with learning to walk and falling as a child, to falling in love and hurting as a youth.
For fear of everything, some simply lay on the ground and safely remain there, hell, there's no falling when lying down!. This could safely be described as being alive but not living. Chances of falling are more when running than standing, hence most people, after attaining a certain level of success, bask in it and ten years on, are still talking of who they were. Now, some DO run, but backwards...the past just won't let them go and neither will they let the past go...I call it: stuck in reverse...to these ones, who they were defines who they are and who they will always be...I feel pain for these ones...A few DO RUN FORWARD, for these, life is no walk in the park, frustration has caused more than a few to hang their running shoes and leap all the way to the finish line...The WHO has said there are about a million suicides a year worldwide...Hmmm...now tell me, why would a man switch off a lamp God has turned on?...
Well for starters, he has stopped believing in the one who turned it on...Frustration is a familiar terrain to the human race, as well as disappointment and despair...someone once said "A ship doesn't sink when it gets on water, it sinks when the water gets in it"...Gary Lightbody(lead singer, Snow Patrol) knows frustration too well, he'd been writing and singing songs for 10years and no one knew his band, he had so many failed relationships under his belt, he couldn't pay his rent, frustration drove him to the bottle, and one fateful day in 2000 something happens. He says:"I was on a massive bender and one night I was drinking in the bar of the Glasgow School Of Art. I fell down a full flight of stairs. Jonny Quinn (Snow Patrol’s drummer) found me in the stairwell with blood coming out of my head. He said I looked like a police chalk line and he thought I was dead. I was very lucky.
A fall like that could easily finish you off. I split my head open and my eye was closed and I lost a few teeth. I was put on a plane to see my mum and dad and they were terrified when they saw me."...Today, a song he wrote turned out to be the most played song of the decade(2000-2010). Shortly after that incident, he wrote a song "RUN" which talks about light at the end of the tunnel..."Light up, light up, as if you have a choice, even if you cannot hear my voice, I'll be right beside you dear" - the song says. Any time I listen to that song, it just feels like God(the director) is talking to me...Life is a race, death is the finish line...don't jump from the start line to the finish line, don't leap from the mid-line to the finish line...put on your running shoes and run your days, if you ever get frustrated, join those on the floor, lie down, take a deep breath, don't run in reverse, don't jump to the finish line, breathe, remain alive...and when you finally find the strength, put on your running shoes, light up, light someone up if you can...and RUN! —
